{"id":4004,"date":"2016-03-13T08:19:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T08:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=4001&preview_id=4001"},"modified":"2016-03-13T08:19:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T08:19:27","slug":"ministers-blast-critics-of-aol-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"Ministers blast critics of AoL festival | Deccan Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least three Union Ministers of the Modi government attacked at the critics of the World Culture Festival organised by Art of Living Foundation (AoL), hailing the success of the three-day mega event, which concluded here on Sunday.<\/strong>Addressing the programme, Union Minister Arun Jaitley said \u201ca lot of efforts\u201d were made to stop the holding of the mega event on the flood plains of the Yamuna. \u201cBut the scene at this sight is that environment is very beautiful here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He also took dig at a section of media, maintaining that he did not even had to suffer any traffic congestion on his way to the venue of the programme.<\/p>\n

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Venkaiah Naidu also attacked the critics of the Sri Sri Ravi Shankar\u2019s World Cultural Festival, saying \u201cit was not the Yamuna which is polluted but some \u2018minds\u2019 which must to be cleaned\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw in media that people are saying the Yamuna is polluted. I see from here and the Yamuna appears to be very clean and calm. Only minds are polluted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He thanked Sri Sri Ravi Shankar for organising the programme, saying \u201cWe are moving forward. Tension is reducing, attention is increasing.\u201dHe also said human values were \u201ceroding\u201d and morals were \u201cbeing foregone\u201d with \u201cincreasing violence and obscenity\u201d in public life, maintaining that efforts must be taken to bring all these things to an end.<\/p>\n

Joining his cabinet colleagues, Union Minister Ravishankar Prasad also maintained there was \u201cno pollution\u201d and no environmental damage was caused at the event site. Sri Sri Ravishankar also took on the critics of his programme, saying it was a floating stage build at the venue for participants but people failed to understand how such stage can be constructed without digging deep in its foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said it (stage) is unsafe. But I said I am here to think of every one\u2019s security. Those strong from within can bring security to every one. Our job is to unite hearts and mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source: Ministers blast critics of AoL festival | Deccan Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At least three Union Ministers of the Modi government attacked at the critics of the World Culture Festival organised by Art of Living Foundation (AoL), hailing the success of the three-day mega event, which concluded here on Sunday.Addressing the programme, Union Minister Arun Jaitley said \u201ca lot of efforts\u201d were made to stop the holding […]<\/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":[1159,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004"}],"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=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}