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Tens of thousands of Hindus gathered Sunday in northern India to ask again for the construction of a Hindu temple on a site where a 16th century mosque was attacked and demolished by Hindu extremists in 1992, causing deadly violence between Hindus and Muslims.
Protesters chanted slogans demanding the construction of the temple and waved a banner saying, "No more requests, now it will be a battle."
Hindu extremists are pressuring the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to act quickly on this issue. Modi had promised to build the temple in the 2014 national elections that brought him to power. The next national elections are scheduled before May next year.
Security has been strengthened for the rally. Thousands of police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in Ayodhya, a town 550 km east of New Delhi, to prevent any attacks by Muslims, who represent 6% of the total population. the city. 55,500 people.
The rally brought holy men and Hindu activists to the city where the Hindu god Ram was born.
"Hindus have been waiting a long time, they are losing patience," Mahant Nritya Gopal Das, who heads the committee on the disputed land, told the crowd. "The time has come for the government to take a call."
Ally with the Bharatiya Janata party's power to the federal government, the Shiv Sena party, has asked the Modi government to introduce a bill for the construction of the temple, as the highest Indian court takes the time to settle a dispute over land titles between Hindus and Muslims.
Shiv Sena leader Uddav Thackeray said that if the construction of the temple did not begin, Modi's government would not return to power. "The prime minister has to choose between the temple and the government," he told reporters.
Hindu fundamentalists with picks and crowbars razed the sixteenth century Babri mosque on the ground in December 1992.
Hindu groups said the mosque was built after the destruction of a temple dedicated to Ram by Muslim invaders.
The destruction of the mosque has provoked riots across India that have killed at least 2,000 people. Thousands of others died in subsequent acts of violence caused by disputes on the site.
The matter has also been brought before the courts. In 2010, a lower court decided that the disputed territory should be divided into three parts: two for Hindus and one for Muslims. The decision has been challenged in the Supreme Court, but no decision has yet been taken.
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