Thread by @SwarajyaMag

1. As Ayodhya gets ready for the historic occasion, here's a 25-tweet thread on the struggles, the controversies and the records that have led to August 5th.

2. As the Bhumi Pujan draws closer, here is a brief history of the long legal battle that was fought and won for the mandir:

#Ayodhya #BhumiPoojan

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3. From Persian works of the medieval era to sanads issued by Mughals in 18th century, Muslim sources themselves acknowledge the formerly disputed plot as the Ram Janmabhoomi:

#Replug #AyodhyaRamMandir

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4. What @sandipanthedeb saw when he entered the excavation site at the Ram Janmabhoomi in 2003:

#Replug #AyodhyaRamTemple

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@sandipanthedeb 5. Ram Mandir judgment: How Supreme Court took Leftist historians to task for their distortions.

#BhoomiPujan #Replug

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@sandipanthedeb 6. Isn’t it time for Left Historians to apologise to the nation for their dishonesty?

#AyodhyaRamTemple

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@sandipanthedeb 7. Seetha was there at ground zero when the disputed structure at the Ram Janmabhoomi was brought down. Here is her eyewitness account.

#Replug #RamMandir

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8. "I have been a staunch devotee of Lord Ram since 1957. In my daily puja, I read a few sargas of the Valmiki Ramayana, which I continue to do till date."

"I have not stopped this practise even for a single day since I had begun reading the Ramayana."

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9. The 2010 judgement of the Allahabad HC was a landmark in the Janmbhoomi case. Here is a short and simple summary of that verdict:

#AyodhyaRamTemple

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10. Harbinger of an awakening: How historian Dharampal saw the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement—

#RamJanmabhoomi #BhoomiPujanOn5August

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11. Why a temple, and only a temple should come up at the Ram Janmabhoomi site.

#Replug #RamMandirAyodhya

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12. "When excavation was undertaken at Ayodhya by Dr B B Lal, I was the only Muslim archaeologist in the team. At that time, these controversies were not there. When the controversy came up, the JNU historians suppressed some of our crucial discoveries."

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13. The Ram Mandir Trust should set the right precedents and create a strong template for running temples efficiently and transparently.

#RamMandir

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14. I will come back when construction of Ram Mandir begins - what PM Modi said after visiting Ayodhya in 1991.

#AyodhyaBhoomipoojan

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15. The fascinating story of a Shaktipeeth in Meghalaya sending soil and water for Bhoomi Puja at Ayodhya:

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16. It is important that before the construction of the Ram temple, a thorough excavation takes place at the site, and the remains are preserved in a museum at Ayodhya. This will remind our future generations of Islamic fundamentalism.

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17. After Ram Temple ruling by SC, Suryavanshi Kshatriyas in Ayodhya and Basti Villages end their 500-year-old vow and get their turbans back.

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18. An amicable settlement between Hindus and Muslims would have been arrived at in 1990s itself. But some ‘eminent historians’ took it upon themselves to create animosity between the two by shifting goalposts and pushing false narratives.

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19. New book documents how Hindus saved idols and rebuilt temples destroyed by Islamic iconoclasm.

#Replug

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20. Every street became the Janmabhoomi: How these devotees from southern India took the Ayodhya movement to every corner they visited.

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21. Bhagwan Ram has always been revered and worshipped in Bengal, let the ‘Left-Liberal’ cabal not tell you otherwise.

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22. Wait is over, Rama is home in 'Unconquerable' Ayodhya:

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23. For several smaller Dalit and OBC castes, the Ram Mandir movement was the first instance of mainstream political mobilisation in post-independence India.

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24. Ram Janmabhoomi: All about Nihang Sikhs who performed Ram-Nam havan inside Babri-structure in 1858.

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25. Only a temple can come up at Ram Janmabhoomi; to suggest anything else is to digress.

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