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BJP complaint over mosque report

BBC Online :
India’s main opposition BJP has complained to the election authorities about a report by an investigative website on the tearing down of a mosque in the holy town of Ayodhya in 1992.
The report claims the demolition of the mosque by Hindu extremists was planned by groups with links to the BJP.
The incident led to widespread rioting in which some 2,000 people died.
It was one of the worst cases of religious violence since the partition of India in 1947.
Hindus claim the site of the 16th Century Babri Masjid (mosque) is the birthplace of their deity, Ram, and want to build a temple there.
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has questioned the timing of Friday’s report on the Cobrapost website ahead of the nine-phase general election beginning on Monday.