On 22-23 December 1949 at night, Lord Ram appeared
in the Babri masjid.
This is the seed that was to be a long-drawn battle
that was started in the temple town of Ayodhya in the 1940s. Hindu people
contended that, at the birthplace of Lord
Rama, there has been a temple that Mughal emperor Babar had demolished
in 1528 to construct the Babri Masjid. The claim of Hindu was disputed by the
Muslims who continued to offer namaz in the Babri Masjid.
On 22-23 December 1949, Lord Ram appeared in the Babri
Masjid, that event was immediately portrayed as unambiguous proof that Lord
Rama had been born there. The first information report (FIR) was filed at
Ayodhya police station named Abhiram Das, Ram Shakal Das, Sudarshan Das and
fifty to sixty unnamed people for rioting. The police investigation hardly
helped in shifting truth from myth. At the end, Hindus got the right to worship
where the idol had allegedly manifest itself, and all the legal disputes was
born.
Poddar, who had been involved throughout in Hindu
nationalist propaganda, received the news of the appearance of the idol of Lord
Rama with great joy.
In the year 1990, Ram janmabhoomi movement was
steamed up, Kalyan praises the efforts of India’s first home minister Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel who had begun the project of protecting Indian culture by
announcing the reconstruction of world-famous temple Somnath temple in Dwarka,
Gujarat. After Sardar Vallabhbai Patel’s death, Khemka said, Indian politics
had not paid too much attention on such matters as they were too busy in
looking after their political interests. According to Khemka Ram janmabhoomi
should not be viewed as a political issue but as a spiritual matter and one of
the national pride too. Khemka said that Hindus and Muslims could live a
brothers only if there was mutual regard and willingness to sacrifice.
Moreover, he also suggested that the Babri masjid be respectfully shifted from
its present site build somewhere else.
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