{"id":1766,"date":"2002-03-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/14\/2002-03-14-indian-security-forces-flood-ayodhya\/"},"modified":"2002-03-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-14T12:00:00","slug":"2002-03-14-indian-security-forces-flood-ayodhya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/03\/14\/2002-03-14-indian-security-forces-flood-ayodhya\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Security Forces Flood Ayodhya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/hi\/english\/world\/south_asia\/newsid_1873000\/1873324.stm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>AYODHYA, INDIA, March 14, 2002: Indian security forces have put on a massive show of strength in Ayodhya as Hindus prepare to hold special prayers at a disputed holy site in defiance of a Supreme Court ban. More than 2,000 police and paramilitary troops marched through the northern town, hours after a senior Hindu leader vowed that the ceremony would go ahead. Mahant Paramhans Ramchandra Das, who is spearheading the campaign to build a temple on the site of the razed Babri mosque (built upon the birthplace of Lord Rama), said devotees would gather at the site on Friday. His statement followed a determined pledge by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to uphold Wednesday&#8217;s court order barring all religious activity at the site. The BBC&#8217;s Adam Mynott says authorities have raised security to unprecedented levels, determined that the showdown does not spark an explosion in communal violence. &#8220;We will do puja&#8230; even if the government shoots me,&#8221; the 92-year-old was quoted as saying by the Reuters news agency. Security forces have all but sealed off Ayodhya, with police stationed at every street corner and armed officers on rooftops.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE AYODHYA, INDIA, March 14, 2002: Indian security forces have put on a massive show of strength in,&#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-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}