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[url="http://www.indianexpress.com/news/maoists-demand-mosque-at-babri-site/720879/"]Maoists demand mosque at Babri site[/url]

The CPI (Maoist) has given a call to observe Monday, December 6 — when the Babri Masjid was demolished in Ayodhya 18 years ago — as black day. The outfit has demanded that the mosque should be rebuilt at the same site and those who had demolished it must be punished severely.



In a signed press release issued by the Central Committee of CPI (Maoist), spokesperson Abhay said the Maoists had all along maintained that the land on which the Babri Masjid stood belonged to Muslims and it should be given back to them.



The outfit said “Hindu fundamentalists made the 500-year-old Babri Masjid a controversial site by claiming it as the birth place of Lord Ram and on that pretext many a time instigated communal disturbances in the country killing thousands of Muslims”.



“Demolition of Babri Masjid was the biggest attack by Hindu fascists in the history of our country. The likes of L K Advani, Ashok Singhal, Murli Manohar Joshi, Praveen Togadia, Uma Bharati, Sadhvi Ritambara, who were directly involved in it, were not punished by any court even till today,” the statement sent.