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Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh during the Ram Rath Yatra of 1990, opened fire on Ram Bhakts while Kalyan Singh during 6 December, 1992 vowed not to fire a single bullet.

Fourty-three years after communal riots in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad town killed at least 83 people and injured 112, the state government has tabled a report of a judicial commission that cleared the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the local administration of any wrongdoing, instead blaming local Muslim political leaders for what it called pre-planned violence.