Lucknow, Nov. 9 -- The decade-old Ayodhya dispute had a political turmoil in the country since 1980s which saw the rise of Bharatiya Janata Party, and socialist political leaders Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav in the backdrop of declining Congress.

Though Congress, which emerged as the 'biggest loser' in the entire Ayodhya issue, but history claims that the party was behind the controversy by opening the Ramjanambhoomi in 1986 and to some extent slow in preventing the demolishing of the Babri mosque on December 6,1992.

Over the decades, as the dispute gradually acquired the centre stage of national discourse from being a mere local issue at the time of Independence. It paved the way for the BJP which rose on the kamandal (a m...