New Delhi: The bhoomi pujan or ground-breaking ceremony for the Ram Mandir is set to take place in Ayodhya Wednesday afternoon, in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath.
But the Ram Janmabhoomi movement goes back centuries, and has been mired in politics, controversy, legal issues and violence.
ThePrint looks back at 10 important milestones that led to this point.
1528
Mughal emperor Babar’s commander Mir Baqi builds Babri Masjid in Ayodhya.
1949
A mob lays siege to the mosque and places idols of the child Lord Ram, Ram Lalla, under the dome.
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1986
A local court orders the government to open the site to Hindu worshippers. Rajiv Gandhi was the prime minister when the decision was taken.
1989
BJP officially joins the movement after a former Allahabad HC judge, Deoki Nandan Agarwala, files a title suit on behalf of ‘Ram Lalla Virajman’, the deity placed inside the structure in Ayodhya.
1990
BJP leader L.K. Advani launches a Rath Yatra in support of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya.
6 December 1992
The Babri Masjid is demolished, allegedly by kar sevaks.
1994
The Supreme Court, in the historic Ismail Faruqui judgment, says the Babri Masjid was not integral to Islam.
2010
In a 2:1 majority verdict, Allahabad High Court rules that the disputed land be divided into three parts — one each for the Sunni Waqf Board, Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla.
2011
Supreme Court stays HC verdict on Ayodhya land dispute after appeals are filed against it.
9 November 2019
Supreme Court delivers its verdict — government-appointed trust to get disputed site for Ram Mandir, Muslims to get another plot.
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The print kindly do some more research and you people show you are highly intellectual but you show your dumbness everywhere.
1528 – TEMPLE DESTROYED BY MIR BAQI ON ORDERS FROM INVADER BABUR
1853 – Nirmohi Akhara reclaims site
1855 – British Administration divided the premises into two parts: one for Hindus, and the other for Muslims
1883 – Hindus filed a court case to regain possession of the site
2003 – ASI Report confirms the existence of a temple beneath the Babri structure
Jai Jai Shri Ram!
Madam Fatima your chronology stating 1528 that attacker babar’s commander mir baqi build a mosque in Ayodhya is erroneous. It should be attacker barber’s commander Mir baqi destroyed a temple and then build a mosque on the same promises.?????
The religion of writer shows the hatred here against Hindus. Print i will avoid you like plague.
Sir,
History doesn’t start or end with Mughals. Your chronology should have started with tentative dates of mosque creation over temple as well. Otherwise it gives the wrong image.
I have spent my entire childhood believing that Ram Mandir shouldn’t be built. It will hurt image of secular India.
But the world taught me that there is nothing wrong with it. Modern & Democratic govts in Europe have restored churches which were converted to mosques after muslim conquest in medieval period.
Jouarnilst Fatima Khan completely ignores milestone 1528 as how a temple was destroyed there.
True to character
1) No mention of REMAINS OF TEMPLE FOUND UNDER THE STRUCTURE IS MENTIONED.
2) RAM RAJYA denotes physical and economic and educational well being
3) No concept of ” coversions” under RAM RAJYA.
4) NO concept of ” TAX ON NON BELIEVERS ” in RAM RAJYA .
5) Let’s all move towards RAM RAJYA a truly welfare state. Who fights only to defeat evil and not occupy and enslave.