{"id":8756,"date":"2010-02-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/09\/sri-lankan-hindus-shocked-over-peninsula-road-expansion\/"},"modified":"2010-02-09T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T12:00:00","slug":"sri-lankan-hindus-shocked-over-peninsula-road-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/02\/09\/sri-lankan-hindus-shocked-over-peninsula-road-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lankan Hindus Shocked Over Peninsula Road Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/srilankawatch.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=737&#038;Itemid=1\">srilankawatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SRI LANKA, February, 2010: Local Hindus and Hindu cultural organizations are shocked and surprised over plans to demolish around 27 Hindu temples and ancient cultural monuments due to a road expansion program from Jaffna-Kankesanthurai. Opposing voices against the destruction point out that cultural symbols of Tamils should not be demolished under the guise of development process.<\/p>\n<p>The All Ceylon Hindu Federation (ACHF) has taken steps to prevent the demolishment of twenty seven Hindu Kovils and cultural monuments under the developing process of Peninsula &#8211; KKS main road. As a result ACHF has met the Governor of Northern Province Major General G. A. Chandrasiri and has requested them to take alternative measures to prevent such demolition.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Tamil Ministers nor Tamil Parliamentarians have spoken regarding this matter so far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: srilankawatch.com SRI LANKA, February, 2010: Local Hindus and Hindu cultural organizations are shocked and surprised over plans to demolish,&#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-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","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=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}