“If I am to believe newspaper reports (in reporting on the communal conflict, that is always a big "if"). (…) [The statement] is merely a typical exercise in the mendacious secularspeak of the Nehruvian elite…”

—  Koenraad Elst

K. Elst : The Ayodhya Demolition: an Evaluation, in India., & Dasgupta, S. (1995). The Ayodhya reference: The Supreme Court judgement and commentaries.
1990s

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