Babri demolition, 25 years on: The push that shook India

A personal recollection of the events of December 6

Thank the trustees of Ayodhya’s Hanuman Garhi temple for allowing journalists, albeit after a thorough scrutiny, to their spacious terrace from where we got a vantage view of every event leading to the denouement on December 6, 1992.   

Uttar Pradesh had a BJP government and the security ecosystem was not as impregnable as the apparatuses that were put in place by the previous chief minister, Mulayam Singh Yadav, in October-November 1990 before the first concerted attack on the Babri mosque happened. Even that cast-iron cover was breached by the determined volunteers or kar sevaks of the RSS family, forcing