Lal Krishna Advani launched and led a nationwide roadshow, the Ram Rath Yatra, from Somnath in Gujarat to Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya in 1990, but was arrested in Bihar.
The 'professor' of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was with Advani at every step until Dec 6, 1992, and the court trial that followed.
Mahajan is known to have convinced Advani to drop the idea of travelling by foot from Somnath to Ayodhya. Upon his suggestion, the Rath Yatra was undertaken which cultivated consciousness for Ram temple across its route.
The BJP vice president was indicted by the Liberhan Commission for her alleged role in inciting the crowd on Dec 6, 1992 to demolish the disputed religious structure at the site of Lord Ram’s birthplace.
As the then chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Kalyan Singh defended his government’s decision not to order firing or use of force against devotees heading towards the medieval structure on and before Dec 6, 1992.
The BJP leader who thrice became India’s prime minister after the events of Dec 6 1992, is not known to be as directly involved with these events. But his speech in Lucknow a day before, in which he called for ‘flattening of the surface’ at the site of Ram Janmabhoomi, is widely interpreted as his assent for the events that followed in Ayodhya a day later.