The road to the Grand Ram Temple being built at the Ram Janmabhoomi, Ayodhya, has been a long and arduous one. It has been a 500-year-long battle, with hundreds sacrificing their lives to reclaim one of the most holy sites for Hindus and several stories from Ayodhya, that have been buried during the long struggle.
This tag collates some of the Ground Reports from Ayodhya by OpIndia in the run-up to the Pran Pratishtha ceremony.
Several Kar Sevaks and their families have accused then-MLA Munnan Khan of being involved in killing Kar Sevaks during massacre in 1990 in Ayodhya.
A karsevak and witness to the demolition of the disputed structure recounted the event which transpired on the fateful day.
For years, several Islamists and the leftist-liberal ecosystem have been peddling a story around Balbir Singh which is that he suffered the worst bout of paranoia for his contribution towards…
Mani Parvat, which is surrounded by mazar on three sides, is not only sacred to Hindus but also highly sensitive to security issues as the PAC wing of the Uttar Pradesh…
Munnan Khan roamed in a government roadways bus with his accomplices in places where the movement of karsevaks was strictly prohibited.
The villagers of Basti's Sandpur were gunned down by the then-SP administration during the Ram Janmbhoomi campaign in Ayodhya
On 22nd October 1990, on the information of the presence of karsevaks, the local Dubaulia police station team raided the Sandpur village. In this raid, the police had also opened…
Jairaj Yadav encountered a dual setback when the government of Mulayam Singh Yadav implicated him as an accused in the police onslaught on the village
Satyaprakash Singh considers Mulayam Singh Yadav guilty of the firing in his village and of the people killed in it.
According to Ramnath, there was such fear of the police at that time that the other young members of his Yadav-dominated village also left their homes and hid somewhere.