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Ayodhya Ram Mandir Karsevaks

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.

This topic page traces the stories of those Karsevaks who sacrificed their lives in the quest to reclaim Ram Janmabhoomi.

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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut claims that Congress members too were involved in Ram Mandir movement

OpIndia Staff - 21 December, 2024

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that even the Congress party contributed towards the Ram Mandr movement.

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Even if shots had been fired, the disputed structure at Ram Janmabhoomi was bound to be demolished that day: An eyewitness account of December...

राहुल पाण्डेय - 26 January, 2024

A karsevak and witness to the demolition of the disputed structure recounted the event which transpired on the fateful day.

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Balbir Singh, first ‘Karsevak’ to attack Babri dome converted to Islam to atone for demolition: Karsevaks dispel long-running lie of Islamist-leftist media

राहुल पाण्डेय - 23 January, 2024

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 the demolition of the Babri structure and seemingly converted to Islam

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Men belonging to ex-MP Munnan Khan, man eulogised by leftist media outlet ‘The Wire’, posed as police and opened fire on unarmed karsevaks in...

राहुल पाण्डेय - 21 January, 2024

Munnan Khan roamed in a government roadways bus with his accomplices in places where the movement of karsevaks was strictly prohibited.

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‘Police looted jewellery; punished us for chanting Jai Shri Ram’: Families of victims of Sandpur massacre during Janmabhoomi movement recount the horror

राहुल पाण्डेय - 19 January, 2024

The villagers of Basti's Sandpur were gunned down by the then-SP administration during the Ram Janmbhoomi campaign in Ayodhya

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Ram Mandir: Read the story of the Sandpur village where Mulayam Singh Yadav’s police fired at all and tortured villagers for sheltering Karsevaks

राहुल पाण्डेय - 18 January, 2024

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 fire.

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Shot in the head, put in jail, tortured: Karsevak Jairaj Yadav passed away after fighting death for 32 years, daughters say ‘Ram Mandir a...

राहुल पाण्डेय - 17 January, 2024

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

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Sacrifice of Satyavan Singh: Police, on orders of Mulayam Singh Govt, encircled his village and opened fire after villagers extended help to Karsevaks

राहुल पाण्डेय - 16 January, 2024

Satyaprakash Singh considers Mulayam Singh Yadav guilty of the firing in his village and of the people killed in it.

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16-year-old Ram Chander Yadav, the first karsevak martyred in the Ram Mandir movement: Had gone to save karsevaks, Police shot him in the head

राहुल पाण्डेय - 15 January, 2024

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.

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‘Mulayam Singh Yadav did this for Muslim votes, Congress remained mere spectators’: Eyewitness to 1990 massacre of Karsevaks in Ayodhya recalls the horror

ANI - 15 January, 2024

Om Bharati, an eyewitness to the 1990 firing incident on Karsevaks in Ayodhya by the then Mulayam Singh Yadav government, sheltered 125 Karsevaks including Kothari brothers on the fateful day

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