{"id":372685,"date":"2020-09-09T11:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=372685"},"modified":"2020-09-10T11:28:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T05:58:36","slug":"amid-opposition-karnataka-cm-inaugurates-flyover-named-after-savarkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/amid-opposition-karnataka-cm-inaugurates-flyover-named-after-savarkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid opposition, Karnataka CM inaugurates flyover named after Savarkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid opposition, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa Tuesday inaugurated a flyover in Yelahanka named after Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Veer Savarkar Flyover\u2019 is 400 metres long and built at a cost of Rs 34 crore. Located on Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road, it connects Yelahanka New Town with Vidyaranyapura area.<\/p>\n<p>The naming sparked bitter political controversy, with Congress and JD(S) criticising the BJP government for not considering the names of<br \/>\nseveral native heroes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t they find any great personality in Karnataka that they\u2019re naming the flyover after a Maharashtra man,\u201d former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy asked, chastising the state government. He even urged the government on behalf of the people of the state to withdraw its decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid opposition, Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa Tuesday inaugurated a flyover in Yelahanka named after Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. The \u2018Veer Savarkar Flyover\u2019 is 400 metres long and built at a cost of Rs 34 crore. Located on Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road, it connects Yelahanka New Town with Vidyaranyapura area. The naming sparked bitter political controversy, with Congress and JD(S) criticising the BJP government for not considering the names of several native heroes. \u201cDidn\u2019t they find any great personality in Karnataka that they\u2019re naming the flyover after a Maharashtra man,\u201d former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy asked, chastising the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}