{"id":40346,"date":"2017-02-23T01:43:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40346"},"modified":"2017-02-23T01:43:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:13:27","slug":"right-parade-elephants-thrissur-festival-committee-calls-hartal-new-indian-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=40346","title":{"rendered":"Right to parade elephants: Thrissur festival committee calls for hartal &#8211; The New Indian Express"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"storyContent\" data-height=\"518\">\n<div class=\"page\">\nTHRISSUR: The Festival Coordination Committee has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district on Thursday as a protest against the regulations placed on the poorams, connected to the annual temple festival.<br \/>\nThe committee is demanding the withdrawal of restrictions placed on fireworks and parading elephants.<br \/>\nAs part of protest committee members will stage a sit-in in front of residences of three ministers from the district.<br \/>\nThe committee has announced in a statement that they will parade elephants as part of the pooram, even if the restrictions are not withdrawn.<br \/>\nThe Congress and BJP have extended their support to the committee\u2019s decision to call hartal.<br \/>\nThe committee members will stage indefinite protest in front of the houses of the three ministers from the district if they cannot conduct the Uthralikkavu Pooram on February 28.<br \/>\nOn February 17, District Collector A Kausigan had convened an all-party meet to discuss the issues related to the conduct of festivals.\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THRISSUR: The Festival Coordination Committee has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the district on Thursday as a protest against the regulations placed on the poorams, connected to the annual temple festival. The committee is demanding the withdrawal of restrictions placed on fireworks and parading elephants. As part of protest committee members will stage a sit-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":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346"}],"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=40346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}