Exclusive-India Hindu group toughens stance on mosque-temple disputes


Indresh Kumar, a senior leader of the Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) arrives at his office in New Delhi, India, January 26, 2024. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A powerful Hindu group said several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just days after a huge temple was inaugurated on the site of a razed mosque.

The comments from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu-nationalist party, come after Modi and the RSS chief led Monday's consecration of the temple on the site of a 16th-century mosque demolished by a Hindu mob in 1992.

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