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Different Hindutva organisations such as the Hindu Mahasabha and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad took positions endorsing the construction of a Ram temple at Ayodhya at different points of time in independent Indian history.
On February 8, 1855, Major General G B Outram of the Awadh Frontier Police wrote to Wajid Ali Shah, the Nawab of Awadh, that there was a strong possibility of a Hindu-Muslim clash in Ayodhya. His fears came true five months later, when a bloody clash on July 28 left 75 members of the Muslim community dead.
FORMER VHP leader Ashok Singhal called his grandfather “the first kar sevak of the Ayodhya movement”, recalls Raghvendra Singh, former Union Culture Secretary and ex-director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.
A couple of months before the Congress officially refused to attend the consecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22, the party’s Madhya Pradesh chief ministerial candidate Kamal Nath told The Indian Express in November that Rajiv Gandhi was the one to get the locks of the Babri Masjid opened in the mid-1980s. This sounded like pandering to Hindus and revealed the inability of the party to speak in one voice on the Ram temple question. However, this confusion isn’t new.
The Somnath Temple was a ‘natural’ starting point for the 1990 Rath Yatra to mobilise public support for a grand Ram temple in Ayodhya, veteran BJP leader L K Advani has said in a forthcoming article in the Rashtradharma magazine.