Vhp Yatra

• VHP yatra reduced to tokenism, over 1000 arrested in showdown at Ayodhya

  For the second time in two months, the RSS-affiliated Vishwa Hindu Parishad was forced to reduce its much-hyped decision to take out a yatra in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya town to press for a law to build a Ram temple to mere tokenism.

• VHP yatra misses date, to start on Monday

  Prohibitory orders remained in force in the district in view of the VHP's 'panch-kosi parikrama', which is now slated to start from Monday.

• VHP prepares for yatra in Uttar Pradesh, prohibitory orders clamped in Faizabad

  Prohibitory orders were clamped in entire Faizabad on Saturday to stop Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP activists, who plan to launch a 'Panch Kosi Parikrama Yatra' today.

• Crackdown on VHP yatra leads to protests in Parliament and outside

  The Uttar Pradesh government's massive crackdown to prevent a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) yatra in Ayodhya on Sunday, caused fireworks in Delhi on Monday.

• VHP defiant despite crackdown on yatra, activists likely to assemble again near Ayodhya, say sources

  A day after the Samajawadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh launched a massive crackdown on the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to prevent them from organising their yatra, the VHP has decided to hold demonstrations in protest from today.

• VHP-Uttar Pradesh government showdown over Ayodhya yatra, over 2000 arrested

  While VHP chief Ashok Singhal was detained at Lucknow airport, senior leader Praven Togadia was arrested while trying to offer prayers at the Saryu river banks. Other leaders arrested today include ex-BJP Member of Parliament Ram Vilas Vedanti and former Ayodhya MLA Lallu Singh. Togadia, Vedanti and Singh have been sent to 14-day judicial custody.

• VHP yatra can't be stopped now, says Ashok Singhal; hundreds arrested in Uttar Pradesh

  The massive crackdown by the Uttar Pradesh government notwithstanding, a defiant Vishwa Hindu Parishad chief Ashok Singhal today asked the state government to review its decision of banning the controversial yatra saying it could not be stopped now with saints from across the country reaching Ayodhya soon.

• With massive security and arrest of top VHP leaders, Ayodhya situation defused

  The Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh managed to contain a potentially volatile situation in Ayodhya today with massive security deployment to prevent the Vishwa Hindu Parishad from launching a controversial yatra.

• VHP's Ayodhya yatra: Party leader Praveen Togadia arrested, sent to custody for 14 days

  Top leaders of the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP have been arrested this morning in Uttar Pradesh for insisting that they will defy a ban on an 19-day yatra or tour of the state, meant to culminate in Ayodhya with a demand for the construction of a Ram Mandir or temple for Lord Ram. All entry points into Ayodhya and neighbouring Faizabad...

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  VHP yatra: Ayodhya turns into fortress, former BJP MP among 350 arrested

  At 7 this morning, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested Ram Vilas Vedanti, a former BJP member of Parliament, from the banks of the river Saryu in Ayodhya. He is among almost 350 people now in preventive custody as the Akhilesh Yadav government tries to thwart every move by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad to hold a 300-km-long parikrama or religious process...

• VHP yatra: Hindu religious leaders divided, Ayodhya priest slams VHP

  As a defiant VHP prepares to launch its yatra today, seen to be an attempt to revive its demand for a Ram temple at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh, a divide seems to have emerged among the Hindu saints associated with the movement.

• VHP's Ayodhya Yatra: Hundreds arrested in Uttar Pradesh

  Top leaders of the right-wing Vishwa Hindu Parishad or VHP have been arrested this morning in Uttar Pradesh for insisting that they will defy a ban on an 19-day yatra or tour of the state, meant to culminate in Ayodhya with a demand for the construction of a Ram Mandir or temple for Lord Ram.

• 46 ascetics arrested en route to Ayodhya

  46 ascetics from Rajasthan headed, by bus, to Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh to undertake the 84-kosi parikrama were arrested around midnight at the Chauma Shahpur border and sent to jail temporarily.

• Ayodhya turns into a fortress, security forces conduct flag march

  A security blanket has been thrown around the twin towns of Ayodhya and Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh as a defiant VHP is threatening to go ahead with their 300 km yatra around Ayodhya on Sunday.

• Security increased around Ayodhya ahead of VHP yatra

  The Uttar Pradesh government has deployed heavy security in Faizabad and Ayodya districts after Vishwa Hindu Parishad threatened to go ahead with its proposed yatra despite the government's ban.