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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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‘They brought a helicopter to target and kill unarmed devotees in Ayodhya’: Families of karsevaks claim involvement of late MP Munnan Khan in the...

राहुल पाण्डेय - 11 January, 2024

Locals, including the family members of martyr karsevaks say that Balrampur's former MP Munnan Khan was activey involved in targeting and killing the devotees.

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Karsevak Mahavir Agrawal was shot twice in chest, was alive when tossed into a vehicle full of corpses: His widow raised their two sons...

राहुल पाण्डेय - 11 January, 2024

Mahavir Prasad Agrawal's wife had to search fanatically for her missing husband on that fateful day. She finally found his body in a police vehicle full of corpses of karsevaks.

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Ram Mandir compound has Ved Pathshalas, Gaushalas, museum, and much more; women’s battalion of CRPF providing water-tight security

राहुल पाण्डेय - 10 January, 2024

OpIndia found that many prestigious families, big industrialists, big personalities from various fields, and top officials from private companies are also volunteering there. Many of these volunteers arrived in Ayodhya in luxury cars such as Jaguars and BMWs and stayed in five-star hotels.

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‘To protect constitution and peace, firing ordered on Karsevaks’: SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya justifies Mulayam Singh Yadav govt’s 1990 “shoot at sight” order

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2024

SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya justified the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government's 'shoot at sight' order resulting in the deaths of numerous unarmed karsevaks in 1990

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Martyred Karsevak Sanjay Kumar Singh’s daughter invited for Ram Mandir Pran Pratishtha ceremony, says ‘father’s dream fulfilled’

OpIndia Staff - 10 January, 2024

Daughter of martyr Kar Sevak Sanjay Kumar Singh from Muzzafarpur in Bihar has been invited to the Ram Mandir Pran Pratistha ceremony

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‘Chanted Maruti Stotra, a monkey came and the wall collapsed’: Meet 96-year-old Karsewak Shalini ji who had narrowly escaped police bullet in Ayodhya

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2024

Dilip Godambe also participated in the Karsewa with Shalini Dabir. He says that those who talk about building a hospital there do not know the value of that soil.

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Avinash Maheshwari sacrificed his life at the age of 19 while doing Kar Seva at Ayodhya: Another story of sacrifice and devotion of a...

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2024

Avinash Maheshwari was 19 years old when he sacrificed his own life while trying to save several other Karsevaks during the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement.

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Bullet in head, saying Ram-Ram even while unconscious: Karsevak Ram Bahadur Verma’s son shares how Mulayam Singh Yadav made him orphan

राहुल पाण्डेय - 9 January, 2024

Ram Bahadur Verma was shot on October 30, 1990, while engaged in Kar Seva, and died 2 months later. OpIndia visited Ram Bahadur Verma's home and obtained information about their life since Ram Bahadur's martyrdom.

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‘Just 1 meal a day for 22 years, no stitched clothes’: Karpatri ji Maharaj’s Tapasya to be fulfilled on 22 January with Pran Pratishtha...

OpIndia Staff - 8 January, 2024

“I resolved not to wear stitched clothes. I will wear a Khadau. Till then I will remain like this. Since then my penance has been going on. On the 22nd, when my God gets established in his home, then I will ask for his blessings and have a full meal," the saint said.

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