Advani Rath Yatra

Prakash Nalawade, who made the rath' or chariot for Lal Krishna Advani's Rath Yatra in 1990, says the memory still gives him goosebumps as the stage is now set for the consecration of the new Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22.

Fate decided there would be a Ram Temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya long before it actually happened, BJP veteran LK Advani declared this week, labelling himself the "charioteer" who led the controversial 'rath yatra' that began in Gujarat in 1990.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that the state's ruling 'Mahagathbandhan' led by his boss Nitish Kumar would "stop Narendra Modi's chariot" like his father Lalu Prasad had halted "Advani's rath yatra".

Veteran BJP leader LK Advani paid tribute to iconic artiste Lata Mangeshkar today with a touching message recalling their long association. It was her song that became the signature tune for his rath yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, he wrote.

Thirty-two people including top BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti have been acquitted of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict today in the Babri Masjid demolition case. A special judge, whose term had been extended for this verdict, mentioned the case background and reasons why they have been acquitted in a 2,300-page-lo...

The verdict in the 28-year-old case involving the demolition of Babri Masjid, which stood at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, will be pronounced today by a special court in Lucknow. The 1992 demolition -- preceded by a series of rath yatras by the BJP's LK Advani -- had cost around 3,000 lives and changed the country's political landscape. The ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Rath Yatra was stopped and its leader Lal Krishna Advani arrested in Bihar in October 1990 though then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had advised against it, said Lalu Yadav, who was the Chief Minister of the state then.

LK Advani, one of the BJP's most powerful leaders at the time, set out on a Rath Yatra on September 25, 1990, from Gujarat's Somnath to campaign for a Ram temple at the disputed Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya. Lalu Yadav recounts the events of the day he arrested LK Advani.

26 years ago, when BJP leader LK Advani's rath rolled into Bihar, then Chief Minister Lalu Yadav ordered his arrest. He chose two officers to stop Mr Advani's rath yatra from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. One of them, Raj Kumar Singh, took oath today to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers.

At a government function on Friday Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the late Deen Dayal Upadhyay, founder of the BJP's former avatar the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, from the pantheon of those who built the party to the ranks of those who built India. The function to mark his 99th birth anniversary saw a bastion collapse...

Terming Narendra Modi as a 'chela' (disciple) of BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani, RJD President Lalu Prasad today vowed to stop him like he had stopped Mr Advani during his rath yatra in 1990.

Bihar leader Lalu Prasad today claimed he will halt BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi much in the way he had had stopped the "rath yatra" of LK Advani in Bihar in 1990. He has been advised by the BJP to "stop daydreaming."

RJD leader Rabri Devi said Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not have the strength to stop Narendra Modi from coming to the state, the way her husband Lalu Prasad had stopped LK Advani during his rath yatra in 1990.

Narendra Modi kicks off his campaign for a third straight term as Gujarat Chief Minister with a month-long tour of his state starting today. The canny politician has picked name, time and place with care.

Among a crowd of thousands that attended what served as the closing ceremony for LK Advani's rath yatra in Delhi were an array of the BJP leader's colleagues - Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar to name a few.

Prakash Nalawade, who made the rath' or chariot for Lal Krishna Advani's Rath Yatra in 1990, says the memory still gives him goosebumps as the stage is now set for the consecration of the new Ram temple in Ayodhya on January 22.

Fate decided there would be a Ram Temple in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya long before it actually happened, BJP veteran LK Advani declared this week, labelling himself the "charioteer" who led the controversial 'rath yatra' that began in Gujarat in 1990.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday claimed that the state's ruling 'Mahagathbandhan' led by his boss Nitish Kumar would "stop Narendra Modi's chariot" like his father Lalu Prasad had halted "Advani's rath yatra".

Veteran BJP leader LK Advani paid tribute to iconic artiste Lata Mangeshkar today with a touching message recalling their long association. It was her song that became the signature tune for his rath yatra from Somnath to Ayodhya, he wrote.

Thirty-two people including top BJP leaders LK Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi and Uma Bharti have been acquitted of conspiracy charges in a landmark verdict today in the Babri Masjid demolition case. A special judge, whose term had been extended for this verdict, mentioned the case background and reasons why they have been acquitted in a 2,300-page-lo...

The verdict in the 28-year-old case involving the demolition of Babri Masjid, which stood at the Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya, will be pronounced today by a special court in Lucknow. The 1992 demolition -- preceded by a series of rath yatras by the BJP's LK Advani -- had cost around 3,000 lives and changed the country's political landscape. The ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Rath Yatra was stopped and its leader Lal Krishna Advani arrested in Bihar in October 1990 though then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed had advised against it, said Lalu Yadav, who was the Chief Minister of the state then.

LK Advani, one of the BJP's most powerful leaders at the time, set out on a Rath Yatra on September 25, 1990, from Gujarat's Somnath to campaign for a Ram temple at the disputed Ramjanmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site in Ayodhya. Lalu Yadav recounts the events of the day he arrested LK Advani.

26 years ago, when BJP leader LK Advani's rath rolled into Bihar, then Chief Minister Lalu Yadav ordered his arrest. He chose two officers to stop Mr Advani's rath yatra from Somnath in Gujarat to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. One of them, Raj Kumar Singh, took oath today to join Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers.

At a government function on Friday Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley moved the late Deen Dayal Upadhyay, founder of the BJP's former avatar the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, from the pantheon of those who built the party to the ranks of those who built India. The function to mark his 99th birth anniversary saw a bastion collapse...

Terming Narendra Modi as a 'chela' (disciple) of BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani, RJD President Lalu Prasad today vowed to stop him like he had stopped Mr Advani during his rath yatra in 1990.

Bihar leader Lalu Prasad today claimed he will halt BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi much in the way he had had stopped the "rath yatra" of LK Advani in Bihar in 1990. He has been advised by the BJP to "stop daydreaming."

RJD leader Rabri Devi said Bihar's Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not have the strength to stop Narendra Modi from coming to the state, the way her husband Lalu Prasad had stopped LK Advani during his rath yatra in 1990.

Narendra Modi kicks off his campaign for a third straight term as Gujarat Chief Minister with a month-long tour of his state starting today. The canny politician has picked name, time and place with care.

Among a crowd of thousands that attended what served as the closing ceremony for LK Advani's rath yatra in Delhi were an array of the BJP leader's colleagues - Nitin Gadkari, Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj and Ananth Kumar to name a few.