While Ayodhya resembled a city under seige earlier during the day, the scene was no different elsewhere in the state with police and central forces keeping an eye over the security situation and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath personally monitoring it from a hi-tech control room in the state capital.
We present our alphabet of 2020, pulling in everything you'll remember about this year we'd rather forget.
'The Babri Masjid wasn't just a mosque, it was a test of our secularism,' says Jyoti Punwani.
