{"id":514575,"date":"2022-08-17T09:48:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T04:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=514575"},"modified":"2022-08-17T10:31:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:01:02","slug":"bmrcls-move-to-put-up-savarkars-photo-in-metro-station-stirs-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/bmrcls-move-to-put-up-savarkars-photo-in-metro-station-stirs-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"BMRCL&#8217;s move to put up Savarkar&#8217;s photo in metro station stirs controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move of Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation&#8217;s (BMRCL) to put up a photo of Veer Savarkar in the flex installed in the premises of Majestic Metro station has stirred a controversy.<\/p>\n<p>The issue has created a debate on social media. The flex contains the photos of freedom fighters Chandrashekar Azad and Udham Singh along with Veer Savarkar. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Bhutva Karnataka&#8217;, an organisation fighting for pluralism objected to it and posted a message on social media, triggering a debate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hello, officers of BMRCL, why have you put up Savarkar&#8217;s photo? What is his contribution? Why should we respect someone who apologised to the British? Didn&#8217;t you get anyone else, whose order is this?&#8221; the post questioned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move of Bengaluru Metro Rail Corporation&#8217;s (BMRCL) to put up a photo of Veer Savarkar in the flex installed in the premises of Majestic Metro station has stirred a controversy. The issue has created a debate on social media. The flex contains the photos of freedom fighters Chandrashekar Azad and Udham Singh along with Veer Savarkar. &#8216;Bhutva Karnataka&#8217;, an organisation fighting for pluralism objected to it and posted a message on social media, triggering a debate. &#8220;Hello, officers of BMRCL, why have you put up Savarkar&#8217;s photo? What is his contribution? Why should we respect someone who apologised to [&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":[135,130,256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514575","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=514575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}