{"id":306075,"date":"2018-11-25T07:59:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306075"},"modified":"2018-11-25T07:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T07:59:26","slug":"cm-yogi-adityanath-clears-plan-for-221-metre-statue-of-lord-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/cm-yogi-adityanath-clears-plan-for-221-metre-statue-of-lord-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"CM Yogi Adityanath clears plan for 221-metre statue of Lord Ram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-306077 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lord-ram-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/lord-ram-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/lord-ram-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/lord-ram.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday finalised the details for the construction of a 221-metre-long statue of Lord Ram in Ayodhya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision of constructing a grand statue was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP-led government announced that the statue will be 211 meters tall, which is taller than 182 metres Statue of Unity in Gujarat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the statue would measure 151 meters and would be put on a 50-metre high pedestal and its overhead umbrella would be 20 metres. The combined height of the structure would thus be 221 metres, making it the world&#8217;s tallest statue.\u00a0The statue will be made of bronze, it plans to build on the banks of the Sarayu river. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A representational photograph of the statue was also shared with the media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision came hours ahead of a massive rally planned by Shiv Sena and Vishwa Hindu Parishad, to demand the construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday finalised the details for the construction of a 221-metre-long statue of Lord Ram in Ayodhya. The decision of constructing a grand statue was taken in a high-level meeting chaired by UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. The BJP-led government announced that the statue will be 211 meters tall, which is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2015],"tags":[5372,9731,9874,2960,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306079,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306075\/revisions\/306079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}