{"id":68801,"date":"2019-08-23T12:01:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=68801"},"modified":"2019-08-23T12:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:01:58","slug":"ravidas-temple-dispute-kejirwal-lobs-ball-in-centres-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/ravidas-temple-dispute-kejirwal-lobs-ball-in-centres-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravidas temple dispute: Kejirwal lobs ball in Centre\u2019s court"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said he would swap 100 acres of forest land for the plot in Tughalakbad where a Ravidas temple stood till it was demolished by the DDA almost a fortnight ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He asserted that the solution to the dispute lay with the Centre.\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of faith of crores of people. The place is associated with Ravidas, it has got his vibrations. The matter has become a subject of petty politics,\u201d Kejriwal said in the Delhi Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll should work for construction of the temple. Around 12-15 crore people want the Centre to allocate this four-five acres of land for the temple,\u201d he said.<br>\n\u201cSome people say it is forest land. If the DDA gives this four-five acres of land to Ravidas samaj, the Delhi Government will give the Centre 100 acres of forest land. Solution to this lies only with the Centre,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BJP legislators OP Sharma and Vijender Gupta were marshalled out of the House for interrupting the chief minister\u2019s speech.The Ravidas temple was demolished by the DDA on August 10 on the orders of the Supreme Court.Tension prevailed in south Delhi\u2019s Tughlakabad area after a protest by Dalits against the demolition of the temple on Wednesday turned violent.<\/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>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said he would swap 100 acres of forest land for the plot in Tughalakbad where a Ravidas temple stood till it was demolished by the DDA almost a fortnight ago. He asserted that the solution to the dispute lay with the Centre.\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of faith of crores [&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":68802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801","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=68801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68803,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68801\/revisions\/68803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}