{"id":17984,"date":"2016-08-27T16:13:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T10:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=17981&amp;preview_id=17981"},"modified":"2016-08-27T16:13:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T10:43:32","slug":"utsava-samithi-to-make-khairtabad-ganesh-58-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=17984","title":{"rendered":"Utsava Samithi To Make Khairtabad Ganesh 58-Feet High &#8211; Sakshipost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Samithi members said that effluents are discharged into Hussainsagar throughout the year but none raise their voice, but for the festival which is celebrated once a year is restrained and several conditions are imposed.<\/p>\n<p>Despite GHMC officials have organized nine lakes for immersion, Samithi members are adamant that they will continue immersion process in Hussainsagar and even exhorted people to continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a ritual for people to immerse idols in Hussainsagar. They do this as a sign of unity and integrity. No one can stop us from doing so,\u201d said Rao.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at a review meeting on Wednesday GHMC commissioner Janardhan Reddy said that to facilitate smooth procession of idol immersion, the civic body will prune trees. However, the move has angered environmentalist calling it as \u2018hypocrisy\u2019 which will ridicule government\u2019s \u2018Haritha Haram\u2019 programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGanesh pooja is done with leaves and flowers and if we go around chopping them down to make way for huge idols, it is sheer hypocrisy,\u201d said environmentalist Purushottam Reddy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Samithi members said that effluents are discharged into Hussainsagar throughout the year but none raise their voice, but for the festival which is celebrated once a year is restrained and several conditions are imposed. Despite GHMC officials have organized nine lakes for immersion, Samithi members are adamant that they will continue immersion process in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}