Abdul Waheed Quraishi, 43, has a ringside view of preparations for the consecration ceremony at the Ram temple taking place just a few hundred metres away from his house, and his anxiety is growing as the countdown to January 22 gets closer.
“We really don’t know what the outsiders are thinking or planning. Administration assured us that no untoward incident will happen, but among lakhs of people, some elements definitely have different motives. Our family has seen 1990 and 1992 communal incidents in Ayodhya,” said Mr. Quraishi, who lives in the Durahi kuan locality under Ram Janma Bhoomi police station in Ayodhya.
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