{"id":15076,"date":"2016-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/07\/24\/tamil-nadu-cm-thanks-harish-rawat-for-promising-to-install-valluvar-statue\/"},"modified":"2016-07-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T12:00:00","slug":"tamil-nadu-cm-thanks-harish-rawat-for-promising-to-install-valluvar-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2016\/07\/24\/tamil-nadu-cm-thanks-harish-rawat-for-promising-to-install-valluvar-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Tamil Nadu CM Thanks Harish Rawat for Promising to Install Valluvar Statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/nation\/politics\/230716\/jayalalithaa-thanks-rawat-for-installing-valluvar-statue.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CHENNAI, INDIA, July 23, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday wrote to her Uttarakhand counterpart Harish Rawat thanking him for taking steps to install the Thiruvalluvar statue within the government Mela Bhavan in Haridwar. &#8220;I am grateful that you have responded speedily and positively to the outpouring of sentiments of the people of TN on this sensitive issue,&#8221; she told Rawat, who had dispatched a senior Tamil IAS officer in Uttarkhand to identify a suitable spot for the statue&#8217;s installation.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Jayalalithaa in her letter told Rawat that the Thiruvalluvar statue issue had caused &#8220;considerable disquiet&#8221; in TN. Several political leaders in TN had expressed concern over the statue of the poet-saint lying wrapped in a park in Haridwar after the efforts by BJP MP Tarun Vijay to install it on the banks of Ganga failed due to protest from local sadhus.<\/p>\n<p>It appeared that the sadhus were against the Thiruvalluvar statue being erected in an area where only the statues of Hindu deities have been installed. According to R. Meenakshi Sundaram, vice-chairman of the Mussoorie-Dehradun Development Authority, a suitable spot inside the Mela Bhavan will be decided after consulting the Ganga Sabha and the Akhil Bharatiya Akahara Parishad representatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source CHENNAI, INDIA, July 23, 2016 (Deccan Chronicle): Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday wrote to her Uttarakhand counterpart Harish Rawat,&#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-15076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076","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=15076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}