{"id":4734,"date":"2004-11-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/07\/2004-11-07-vhp-activists-turn-violent-during-temple-protest-in-guwahati\/"},"modified":"2004-11-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T12:00:00","slug":"2004-11-07-vhp-activists-turn-violent-during-temple-protest-in-guwahati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2004\/11\/07\/2004-11-07-vhp-activists-turn-violent-during-temple-protest-in-guwahati\/","title":{"rendered":"VHP Activists Turn Violent During Temple Protest in Guwahati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/in.news.yahoo.com\/041105\/139\/2hpxy.html\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>GUWAHATI, INDIA, November 5, 2004: Hundreds of VHP protesters went on a rampage in Guwahati after police tried to stop them from holding a march to protest the demolition of two ancient Hindu temples by the civic administration. The protesters ran through the streets pelting stones, burning tires and smashing a bus before they were arrested. Police have tightened security amidst fears of a communal flare up. Civic officials say the temples had been demolished to facilitate a footpath construction, a rarity in the extremely congested city, adding that they had also received complaints of the premises being used by drug addicts and bootleggers as a safe haven. Defiant activists of the VHP have alleged that Hindu places of worships were being purposely targeted, and vowed to build a new temple at the site. &#8220;We will do the purification and then make the temple at the same place. This is our view,&#8221; Jyotish Pathak, president of the VHP&#8217;s Northeast wing, said. The city bore a deserted look for most of the day and life came to a standstill as shops, schools and offices remained shut due to a 12-hour shutdown caller earlier by the VHP.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceGUWAHATI, INDIA, November 5, 2004: Hundreds of VHP protesters went on a rampage in Guwahati after police tried to stop,&#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-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","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=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}