Ayodhya Recap: Two 1990 Incidents, 72 Hours Apart, That Led To The Fall Of Babri Masjid Two Years Later

Exactly two years before the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya was brought down, horrifying scenes unfolded on streets of the temple town as kar sevaks engaged with the police.

Security forces push back Hindu activists from entering into the Babri Mosque, in Ayodhya on October 30, 1990.

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It was an incident that few saw coming but one that went down as one of the darkest events in the country's political history. But not many might know where and how it all started. Exactly two years before the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya was brought down, brick by brick, on December 6, 1992, horrifying scenes unfolded on the dusty streets and unpaved lanes of the ancient temple town as saffron activists and seers engaged in a free-for-all with men in uniform. Batons rained on kar sevaks as they ran