{"id":7481,"date":"2009-02-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/18\/opposition-to-the-government-s-takeover-of-chidambaram-temple\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T12:00:00","slug":"opposition-to-the-government-s-takeover-of-chidambaram-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/02\/18\/opposition-to-the-government-s-takeover-of-chidambaram-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition To the Government&#8217;s Takeover of Chidambaram Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindu.com\/thehindu\/holnus\/004200902141251.htm\">www.hindu.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KUMBAKONAM, INDIA, February 14, 2009:  Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy has said that he would implead himself in support of the Dikshitars&#8217; appeal challenging a single bench Judge&#8217;s order which paved the way for the government take over of the Nataraja temple in Chidambaram.<\/p>\n<p>Swamy contends that the judgment of the High Court was deficient and pointed out that a 1952 ruling by the court had held that it is a denominational temple.<\/p>\n<p>Swamy said &#8220;a petition is pending before the Parliament petition committee, regarding temple affairs in Andhra Pradesh. I have got vast knowledge of this and have to free temples from the clutches of the government.&#8221; He pointed out that there is a fundamental difference between temples and masjids and churches. In temples, after &#8220;Pranaprathishta&#8221; is done, the place becomes that of God.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government should concentrate on maintaining law and order and developing the economy. Instead they are trying to manage the temple,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.hindu.com KUMBAKONAM, INDIA, February 14, 2009: Janata Party President Dr Subramanian Swamy has said that he would implead himself 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-7481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481","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=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}