In scenes reminiscent of the demolition of the Babri Masjid, thugs climbed atop the Badi Masjid in Ashok Nagar, Shadara, planted a saffron flag and then tried to break away parts of the minaret. They then torched the mosque. My colleagues Naomi Barton and Avichal Dubey were in Ashok Nagar and filed a quick story on the destruction of the mosque. The response of BJP supporters online was to claim the story was fake. No less a person than MoS Home Kishan Reddy demanded that action be taken against news platforms that published what he said was “fake news”.

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