Samajwadi Party Parts Ways With MVA After Uddhav Aide's Remark On Babri Demolition

The Samajwadi Party on Saturday said that it has decided to withdraw from the Opposition Maha Vikas Aghad in Maharashtra in view of a newspaper advertisement published by the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) praising the demolition of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, PTI reported.

Apart from the Samajwadi Party and the Thackeray Sena, the Maha Vikas Aghadi comprises Sharad Pawar’s faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress.

The Babri Masjid was demolished by Hindutva extremists in December 1992, because they believed that it stood on the spot where the Hindu deity Ram was born. The incident had triggered communal riots across the country.