Between strong security measures, around 200,000 activists, monks and devotees have participated this Sunday in the protest called by the nationalist groups, the hindus and held in the holy city of Ayodhya to ask for the construction of a temple on the ruins of a mosque. The organizers require the central Government to allow the building of a temple in the same place where, in 1992, a horde of hindu radicals tore down a mosque in this town in the State of Uttar Pradesh (UP), to the north of the island. Then, the protests spread throughout the country, causing the death of 2,000 people. This event was one of the biggest waves of violence between religious communities in India since its birth as a country.
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“We are controlling all the city with video surveillance cameras and drones,” explained Tripathi Vivek, a spokesman of the police of the State of Uttar Pradesh, according to Reuters. The authorities of the region have also shifted to a allocation extra than 900 police officers and a high number of paramilitary forces, including the command of the elite, in order to avoid that to play the communal violence of two decades ago. Then, the destruction of a muslim mosque in the SIXTEENTH Century caused an outbreak of violence between hindu and muslim indians who recalled the massacres that took place after the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 gave rise to the neighboring nations, and enemy irreconcilable, of India and Pakistan. But finally the demonstration of this Sunday has finished without any skirmishes.
“The mosque was a contempt of the hindus and it is a shame that even we have not built a temple in one of the sacred places of hinduism,” said Sharad Sharma, a spokesman of Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), the World Council of Hinduism and one of the organizing groups; maintains close ties with the Government. Located in one of the regions stronghold of hinduism, and 700 kilometers from New Delhi, the city of Ayodhya is believed to the birth place of the warrior-god Ram, and a focal point of the mythology of the Ramayana, one of the main narratives, Jojobet epics of the religion and local culture. To this, the hindu groups added to so-called evidences of the existence of a temple prior to the lifting of the mosque in 1528, during the occupation of northern India by the Mughal empire, muslim.
in 2010, a Higher regional Court suggested the division of the area into three parts for the construction of two hindu temples and a mosque. But the judgment did not satisfy the hindus more radical, which transferred the case to the Supreme Court of India. Last October, this Court postponed its decision until January of 2019, a few months from the general elections in India. The decision has irritated the radicals who called for the mobilization of their bases in the 45 districts of Uttar Pradesh, the main enclave of the cord hindu of India, and threaten the central Government with “lose power if you don’t build the temple,” said Keshav Thackeray, president of Shiv Sena, other parties organizers of the concentration.
Monks hindus participating this Sunday in a demonstration of nationalism in Ayodhya. PAWAN KUMAR REUTERS
The position of muslim
in view of the tension prevailing in the area and shadow of the shedding of blood between neighbors, the Board of the Personal Law of Indian Muslims, representative of the religious minority, has said that the regional administration is responsible for the safety of your community. “This is the biggest escalation in favour of the construction of the temple from the mosque was destroyed. Are provoking and stirring up the emotions of the people”, declared the leader of the local community, muslim, Ahmad, as reported by the BBC. For its part, the Government of Uttar Pradesh, in the hands of the same party that governs the Executive of india, has expressed its support to the construction of the hindu temple, through his head, the monk fundamentalist Yogi Adityanath.
The largest statue in the world
The own Yogi Adityanath has replaced the nomenclature enclaves of arab origin and muslim in Uttar Pradesh by names of hindu. It is the case of the district in which is located the city of Ayodhya, that weeks ago he left his original name, Faizabad, to call it Ayodhya. On Saturday, the Executive of region has promised the construction of the largest statue in the world in honour of the god Ram in the city of Ayodhya. The bronze figure will be 221 meters high and will have a museum at its base; thus surpassing the current tallest statue in the world; newly opened in the State of Gujarat, west of India.
The current Government of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) depends on the support of the voters of the Uttar Pradesh region, in which it also governs. With an electorate of 220 million, this region sends the largest number of lawmakers to the lower house of Parliament and they were the ones who gave the overwhelming majority with which he won the last elections of 2014. Given this dependence, the team of prime minister Narendra Modi is folded to populist demands in order not to lose their main bastion in the face of general elections in the spring of 2019.