CBS News' contemporary report, byline Arshad R. Zargar, on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 22 January 2024 consecration of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, giving the approximately 8,000 in person attendees, the more than 10,000 police deployed, and the site's history: a mosque built in the 1500s that Hindu hardliners demolished in 1992 in riots that killed more than 2,000 people, and the 2019 Supreme Court ruling that awarded the disputed land to Hindu litigants while assigning an alternate site more than fifteen miles away for a mosque. Notes that only the temple's ground floor was complete for the ceremony.
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AuthorArshad R. Zargar
PublisherCBS News
Publication Year2024
URLhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-ayodhya-ram-temple-modi-innauguration-hindu-muslim-tension/
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A major American television network's contemporary report under a named correspondent's byline, tier 2 for a primary account of the ceremony's date, attendance figures and the site's contested history, corroborated by the Wikipedia cross check below. NotesUsed for the exact date and time, the attendance and security figures, and the site's history including the 2019 Supreme Court ruling.
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