VHP invokes 1992 ghost, warns Hindus' patience thinning on Ram temple issue

Seers claims breakthrough in Ram temple issue expected after December 11

An uneasy calm in Ayodhya was intermittently broken on Sunday morning by blaring of horns by SUVs sporting saffron flags and ferrying enthusiastic Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists to the temple town in Uttar Pradesh for a congregation to demand the early construction of a Ram temple.

The activists chanting pro-temple slogans arrived for VHP’s mass mobilisation programme “Viraat Dharma Sabha” from across 48 districts in eastern and central Uttar Pradesh.

During the day-long event featuring a motley group of seers apart from VHP leaders, the Parishad, which has been at the forefront of the movement, raised the