Opinion | 'Na Satta Mili Na Ram': How 1990 Ayodhya Crisis Cost Mulayam Singh Both Power & Peace

Most people remember that the complete Babri demolition took place on December 6, 1992. But the partial demolition of October 30, 1990, is largely forgotten

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Exactly 36 years ago, on October 30, 1990, a shocking development happened in Ayodhya. It was the first phase of the demolition of the Babri Masjid structure. UP Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s administration evidently surrendered before the ‘kar sevaks’ and made that demolition possible.

Most people remember that the complete Babri demolition took place on the 6th of December, 1992, under the chief ministership of BJP’s Kalyan Singh.

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But the partial demolition of the 30th of October, 1990, is something people either don’t know or don’t remember. This reporter was present at the spot. He recorded the development on camera. That evidence was shown in India Today’s video news magazine, Newstrack.

The repercussions of that demolition created political history in Uttar Pradesh. In the state election that took place 202 days later, Mulayam Singh’s party, Janata Dal, dropped from 208 seats to 92 seats. And the BJP jumped from 57 seats to 221 seats, catapulting Kalyan Singh to become BJP’s first UP Chief Minister.

Now a blow-by-blow account.

BJP President LK Advani began his ‘rath yatra’ on the 25th of September, 1990, from Somnath in Gujarat. The ‘rath yatra’ was scheduled to reach Ayodhya on the 30th of October. However, Advani was arrested on the 23rd of October by Bihar’s Janata Dal Chief Minister, Lalu Prasad Yadav, at Samastipur. Advani could........

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