![]() ![]() ![]() This was generated by the fact that UP had for the first time a Hindutva-inclined Bharatiya Janata Party government and the agitation and demand for a Ram temple on the premises of the mosque was a Hindu fundamentalist demand with which its leaders were very much associated.Īs the threat increased, the Supreme Court of India sought an assurance from the state regime that the monument will under any circumstances be protected. Then, from the autumn of the same year, the danger of damage to and desecration of the Babri mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s temple town of Ayodhya had begun to escalate. ![]() From the overthrow of the Najibullah government in Afghanistan to unrest in Thailand, not to mention simmering issues in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, my colleagues and I were kept intensely and uninterruptedly preoccupied. No sooner this happened, a torrent of seismic stories overtook the region. In early 1992, CNN opened its South Asia news gathering bureau in Delhi. ![]()
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