"The party most likely to be elated over the non-finding of traces of a temple should have been the anti-temple lobby... yet it complains that the ASI team did find evidence, only it was of the pro-temple kind, hence āfabricatedā. In the free-for-all of Indian secularism, we neednāt fuss over the fact that this grim allegation against the integrity of highly qualified scientists was levelled without any evidence."
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