In his 70s, the defendant in the Ayodhya lawsuit beamed: “This wouldn’t have been possible without your support. But in May this year, his government took a major step — it announced the creation of the Ayodhya Nagar Nigam, a larger civic body formed by subsuming the Faizabad Nagar Nigam. The civic body that existed in Ayodhya had been carved out of the Faizabad Nagar Nigam in January 1978. Now, with Faizabad too under its jurisdiction, the Ayodhya Nagar Nigam has to provide civic services to the two towns. The Nagar Nigam is the talk of town, not the title suit hearing, not the 25th countdown to December 6.

Source: Indian Express December 02, 2017 22:01 UTC