{"id":43003,"date":"2018-09-26T11:47:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43003"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:47:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T11:47:06","slug":"babri-a-traumatic-experience-ex-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/babri-a-traumatic-experience-ex-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Babri a traumatic experience: Ex-PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nFormer PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Babri Masjid\u2019s demolition in 1992 was a \u201csad day\u201d for secular republic of India and urged all concerned, including judiciary, to safeguard constitutional values of secularism.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the second AB Bardhan memorial lecture on \u2018Secularism and Constitution\u2019, he said the Babri demolition was a \u201ctraumatic\u201d experience. The country\u2019s leadership faced criticism for it. He prefaced his speech saying that every civilised society is known and defined by the terms it offers to its minorities, especially its religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p>He said the judiciary, media, EC and politicians have duties to protect secularism. Though Singh is renowned for his matter-of-fact approach, many would conflate his reference of the Babri demolition with Rahul Gandhi\u2019s current pitch of being a \u2018Shiv bhakt\u2019.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Former PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday said the Babri Masjid\u2019s demolition in 1992 was a \u201csad day\u201d for secular republic of India and urged all concerned, including judiciary, to safeguard constitutional values of secularism. Delivering the second AB Bardhan memorial lecture on \u2018Secularism and Constitution\u2019, he said the Babri demolition was a \u201ctraumatic\u201d [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43004,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43005,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43003\/revisions\/43005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}