India’s Hindu groups to double down on demands as Narendra Modi set for big win

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Governing party’s coalition partners spotlight the Ram temple, property rights in Kashmir and the slaughter of cows

Supporters of the Vishva Hindu Parishad , a Hindu nationalist organisation, shout slogans after attending “Dharma Sabha” or a religious congregation in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh, India on November 25 2018. Picture: REUTERS/Pawan Kumar

Votes will be counted on Thursday. The BJP will meet its coalition partners on Tuesday to discuss a new government.dharm sansad Many Hindus believe a mosque razed in 1992 was built in the same place where Lord Ram, a physical incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu, was born. They also point to evidence there was a temple there before the mosque was built in 1528. The destruction of the mosque by a Hindu mob had led to riots that killed about 2,000 people across the country.

Rawat and officials of two other RSS affiliates, the Vishva Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal, said their other main demand is the abolishment of decades-old special rights for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, a northern state dominated by Muslims in the Hindu-majority country.

 

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