The Indian government announces that the controversial Ram temple will be completed on January 1, 2024

7 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Indian Home Minister Amit Shah has announced that the controversial Hindu temple of Ram, which will be built on the ruins of a mosque whose destruction was the beginning of one of the worst episodes of violence between Hindus and Muslims in the country’s history , will be finished on January 1, 2024.

The minister made the announcement during a rally in the northeastern city of Tripura to supporters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ultranationalist Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, reports the ‘Hindustan Times’.

This is the first time that the Indian authorities have ruled on the completion date of the temple, built in the northern city of Ayodhya on the rubble of the Babri Mosque, destroyed by a mob of Hindu extremists in 1992.

The destruction of the mosque sparked a wave of interfaith violence the likes of which has rarely been seen in the country’s history, resulting in the deaths of more than 2,000 people, the most serious episode in longstanding tensions between the majority Hindus and the minority country’s Muslim

India’s Supreme Court granted the Indian state control of the land but gave the Muslims a piece of land to build a new mosque. Another court eventually acquitted all participants in the destruction of the Muslim holy site, despite the fact that Indian law strictly prohibits disturbance of these sites.