Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, AAP's Sanjay Singh and RJD's Tejashwi Yadav alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government instigated the violence to divert attention from other issues.

Speaking on the Sambhal violence, AIMIM Chief said "The mosque in Sambhal is not 50-100 years old, it is more than 250-300 years old and the court passed an ex parte order without listening to the people of the mosque which is

Opposition parties blamed the BJP for inciting violence in Sambhal through a mosque survey, while the BJP accused the INDIA alliance of fomenting unrest since the Lok Sabha polls failure and urged legal recourse for those opposing judicial orders.

Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya assured strict measures against those disrupting the survey. “It is the duty of the government and the police to follow the instruction of the court.

Three people were killed and scores of others, including around 20 security personnel and four personnel of the administration, were injured as protesters opposing a court-ordered survey of a Mughal-e

At least people died in a clash with police during the survey of a Mughal-era mosque in Uttar Pradesh's Sambhal on Sunday morning.