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Ashok Singhal (L), president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP, World Hindu Forum) addressing a Hindu religious summit at the Kumbh Mela Hindu pilgrimage, 20 January 2001. Radical Hindus at the religious summit gave the government a one-year deadline to remove 'obstacles' from the construction of a temple on a razed Mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodha. (KEYSTONE/- PHOTO/AFP/Str)