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BJP patriarch L K Advani was not able to attend the
‘bhoomi pujan’ ceremony in Ayodhya on Wednesday,
but it was he who actually laid the foundation of
Ram Temple movement three decades back.
On September 25, 1990, L K Advani, the then tallest
BJP leader, along with his confidant Pramod Mahajan,
started his Rath Yatra after offering puja at
Somnath Temple in Gujarat. The plan was chalked out
such that after covering till Bihar, the yatra would eventually culminate at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh
where Advani would lay the foundation for the
construction of a majestic Ram Temple.
The idea was strongly opposed by the then Prime Minister
V P Singh, whose National Front Government was supported
by the BJP as well as the Left.
Amid political turbulence, Advani’s rath entered Bihar
on October 19, 1990. Lalu Prasad was then the Bihar
chief minister, who had sworn in barely seven months ago. Lalu was in constant touch with the Prime Minister and
kept V P Singh abreast with the volatile situation.
On October 23, Advani’s rath entered Patna where the BJP veteran addressed a huge gathering amid chanting of
slogans: ‘Kasam Ram ki khatein hain, Mandir wahin
banayenge.’ The frenzy was seen to be believed.
The same day, Advani moved ahead and stopped at
Samastipur to spend his night at Samastipur Circuit
House. After constant confabulations with the
prime minister, Lalu eventually decided that time
had come to detain Advani, or else, the communal
harmony in the country may be disturbed. He asked the District Magistrate R K Singh, one of the most
competent IAS officers (who later became Union
Home Secretary before joining the BJP and eventually
becoming Union Minister in Narendra Modi Cabinet),
to arrest Advani.
In the wee hours of October 24, 1990, Singh knocked
Advani’s doors and showed him his arrest warrant.
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