The poster appeared in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Aligarh and Hathras.

LUCKNOW: On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Babri Masjid demolition , posters claiming to launch a movement for the reconstruction of the mosque came up in several cities of western UP.

“Twenty-five years of betrayal. Babri Masjid should be constructed now,” announce the posters put up by the outfit, Popular Front of India .

A senior police officer told TOI that the posters had mostly been put up in Meerut, Ghaziabad, Aligarh, Hathras and Saharanpur. The PFI is also mobilising people from western UP to stage a demonstration in Delhi.

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Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena have announced they will celebrate the demolition as ‘Shaurya Diwas’ on Wednesday. Amid an advisory by the Union home ministry for maintaining peace on the anniversary, the state government has intensified vigil and deployed additional forces in Faizabad.

A high-level meeting of intelligence and police authorities reviewed the situation in view of inputs about possible attempts to create unrest on the 25th anniversary of the demolition.

MHA issues alert

Alerting the states to the possibility of demonstrations and dharnas by some organisations to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the mosque demolition, the Centre advised all states and Union Territories to maintain utmost vigil and take all possible measures to maintain peace and communal harmony.

In a communication dated December 1and addressed to the chief secretaries/ administrators of all states/UTs, the Union home ministry said that given the likelihood of demonstrations, dharnas and submission of memoranda at various places by organisations representing either community, the states should maintain the highest levels of alertness to thwart any attempts to disturb communal harmony in the run up to the 25th anniversary of demolition.

Meanwhile, in Lucknow, the UP DGP on Tuesday issued an alert and said the administration and police had been ordered to prohibit assembly of more than four people without permission in sensitive areas.

