{"id":3605,"date":"2003-10-16T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/16\/2003-10-16-mass-arrests-in-north-india-over-ayodhya-rally\/"},"modified":"2003-10-16T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-16-mass-arrests-in-north-india-over-ayodhya-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/16\/2003-10-16-mass-arrests-in-north-india-over-ayodhya-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass Arrests in North India Over Ayodhya Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3193164.stm\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>AYODHYA, INDIA, October 16, 2003: Police in northern India continue to arrest thousands of Hindu activists even as efforts are under way to defuse tensions over their plan to rally near a controversial religious site, states this BBC article. The activists, who belong to the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), are heading to Ayodhya, as part of a campaign to build a temple on the ruins of a destroyed mosque (which itself was originally built after the destruction of a huge temple marking the site of Lord Rama&#8217;s birth). On Wednesday, police arrested VHP vice-president Giriraj Kishore in the northern city of Lucknow while he was leading a procession of nearly 500 activists. The police say they have arrested 43,000 people from different parts of the state as a preventive measure. The VHP wants to hold a rally at a nearby camp and then offer prayers at a makeshift temple built at the site. Heavy security is in place in Ayodhya, with thousands of special police units deployed along with regular forces. &#8220;They [the Hindu activists] will not be allowed to step outside [on Friday],&#8221; the state&#8217;s top administrative officer, A.P. Singh, said.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceAYODHYA, INDIA, October 16, 2003: Police in northern India continue to arrest thousands of Hindu activists even as efforts are,&#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-3605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605","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=3605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}