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...After the train attack, Vajpayee lost no time in both condemning the violence and warning more extreme elements in the Hindu nationalist movement to call off plans to build a new temple over the ruins of the Babri mosque. Besides the obvious political concerns, India's courts have ruled any such construction illegal, and the prime minister has vowed to uphold...
...secular tolerance. In 1992, the city became the focus of the worst communal violence since India's partition 45 years earlier, when 2,000 people died in clashes after Hindu nationalists - including members of what is now the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - tore down the 16th century Babri mosque. Hindus claim the mosque had originally been built on the site of a temple marking the birthplace of the Hindu deity Lord Rama. Ever since then, the Hindu nationalist movement has been pushing to build a new Hindu temple where the mosque once stood...
...Speaking of India's identity as a secular state, isn't that challenged by Prime Minister Vajpayee's statements in support of a campaign to build a Hindu shrine over the ruins of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya, which was destroyed by a mob of Hindu extremists...
Among the priorities the B.J.P. has relinquished: the construction of a new shrine to Ram at the site of the Babri mosque; repeal of marriage and divorce laws "pandering" to Muslims; doing away with favored status for Jammu and Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state...
...uprising that unsettled all of India. On Dec. 6, 1992, thousands of Hindu zealots stormed a 464-year-old Muslim house of worship in Uttar Pradesh state called the Babri mosque and razed it, many of them ripping at the stones and mortar with their bare hands. Subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting across the country left more than 1,000 dead. When the mosque was destroyed--according to legend, it had been built on the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram--many feared that if the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party who egged on the fanatics ever came...