{"id":4527,"date":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/09\/2004-09-09-janmashtami-celebrated-at-england-s-house-of-commons\/"},"modified":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-09-09T12:00:00","slug":"2004-09-09-janmashtami-celebrated-at-england-s-house-of-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/09\/09\/2004-09-09-janmashtami-celebrated-at-england-s-house-of-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Janmashtami Celebrated at England&#8217;s House of Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Lakhani, Vivekananda Centre, London<\/P><P>LONDON, ENGLAND, September 8, 2004: Today we were invited to a special Janmashtami celebration at the House of Commons promoted by Tony McNulty a Member of Parliament and sponsored by NV Lakhani foundation. The guest speakers included the deputy prime minister, cabinet ministers, and a host of other Members of Parliament as well as Ken Livingston the Mayor of London. The unique feature about this gathering was the fact that the parliamentarians thanked the Hindu community for taking Janmashtami celebrations into the House of Commons thus infusing a spiritual message into the politics of UK. It was wonderful to hear the Members of Parliament commending the role of the Hindu community in the United Kingdom and suggesting that such celebrations should be a yearly event. What we are seeing is a serious shift of emphasis in the UK of not just tolerating other religions but &#8216;accepting other religions&#8217; as equally valid. We were very impressed by what we saw and heard.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Lakhani, Vivekananda Centre, LondonLONDON, ENGLAND, September 8, 2004: Today we were invited to a special Janmashtami celebration at the,&#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-4527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527","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=4527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}