{"id":11312,"date":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/10\/hundreds-urge-leicester-city-council-not-to-axe-cash-for-navratri-event\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T12:00:00","slug":"hundreds-urge-leicester-city-council-not-to-axe-cash-for-navratri-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2012\/09\/10\/hundreds-urge-leicester-city-council-not-to-axe-cash-for-navratri-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds Urge Leicester City Council Not To Axe Cash For Navratri Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk\/Hundreds-urge-Leicester-City-Council-axe-cash\/story-16847409-detail\/story.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LEICESTER, U.K., September 7, 2012 (thisisleicestershire.co.uk): More than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on council bosses not to axe a grant for a major Hindu celebration. Leicester City Council has been providing US$32,000 to help pay for an annual Navratri event at De Montfort Hall, but is considering stopping the support from next year. <\/p>\n<p>The organizers of the Navratri celebrations, the Leicester Hindu Festivals Council, said the cut in funding, if approved, would mean it could not afford to stage the nine-night celebration in 2013. The city council will fund this year&#8217;s event, but president of the festival council, Maganbhai Patel, said it could not continue in the future without the grant. <\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;This year, we are fine but next year, if we don&#8217;t get the funding, we won&#8217;t be able to hold the event. That would be a huge shame because it is enjoyed by about 9,000 people every year and is an important part of the city&#8217;s cultural and religious life. <\/p>\n<p>The petition has triggered a debate among councillors which will take place at the council meeting at the Town Hall on Thursday. The proposed cut is part of a wider review of support the city council offers to festivals, both that it runs itself &#8211; such as the Diwali celebrations &#8211; and those run by community groups, such as the Caribbean Carnival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source LEICESTER, U.K., September 7, 2012 (thisisleicestershire.co.uk): More than 2,000 people have signed a petition calling on council bosses not,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}