As petitions challenging the 1991 Act flood the apex court, the legal, political, and communal stakes have never been higher. Will history be rewritten, or will the law stand firm?
The consecration of the Temple has ended a prolonged legal battle where faith was pitted against law, Hinduism against Islam and religious convictions against rationality. Retracing the century-old legal battle shows how the highly contentious and controversial issue finally arrived at a lawful conclusion
Having participated in the ground breaking ceremony of the Ram Temple here this morning, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a speech, declared: “Today, Ram Janmbhoomi breaks free of the cycle of breaking and getting built again - that had been going on for centuries."
Officials overseeing security arrangements at the Ram Janambahoomi here have the unenviable task of securing a very large number of VVIPs, including Prime Minister Narenda Modi, who reach tomorrow for the 'bhoomi pujan' of the Ram Temple.
As a grand Ram Temple comes up at Ayodhya, it is a moot question whether a challenge to any religious practice or injunction can or should be judicially adjudicated.