Ayodhya Ruling: Doval Meets Religious Leaders

Invites sent out three days earlier

National Security Adviser Ajit Doval met a group of Hindu and Muslim “religious leaders and intellectuals” at his residence here on Sunday, a day after the Supreme Court allowed the construction of a Ram temple at the site where the Babri Masjid stood in Ayodhya.

A joint statement issued by Mr. Doval and those who attended the meeting, including members of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and the All India Muslim Majlis-e-Mushawrat, said: “Those attending the meeting were alive to the fact that certain anti-national and hostile elements ...may attempt to exploit the situation to harm our national interest.”