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FILE: Ayodhya, India's flashpoint holy site / 1WA6LW
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FILE IMAGES of construction site of flashpoint temple and Hindu rituals in India's northern town of Ayodhya.
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will on Monday inaugurate a temple that embodies the triumph of his muscular Hindu nationalist politics, in an unofficial start to his re-election campaign this year.
The 50-metre (160-foot) tall house of worship for the deity Ram was built on grounds where a mosque stood for centuries before it was torn down by Hindu zealots incited by members of Modi's party.
That demolition in 1992 triggered the worst religious riots since independence -- killing 2,000 people, most of them Muslims -- and shook the foundations of India's officially secular political order. FILE IMAGES OF TOWN OF AYODHYA