{"id":306677,"date":"2018-12-06T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T11:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306677"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:25:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:25:50","slug":"west-bengal-government-denies-permission-to-bjps-proposed-rath-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-government-denies-permission-to-bjps-proposed-rath-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal Government denies permission to BJP\u2019s proposed \u2018Rath Yatra\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306678 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"469\" height=\"264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amit-shah.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 469px) 100vw, 469px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The West Bengal government has denied permission to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah&#8217;s proposed &#8216;rath yatra&#8217; from Coochbehar on grounds that it might cause &#8220;communal tension&#8221;, Attorney General Kishore Dutta informed Calcutta High Court on December 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dutta informed the HC that the Coochbehar superintendent of police refused permission for BJP President Shah&#8217;s \u2018Save Democracy Rally\u2019, comprising three \u2018rath yatra\u2019 scheduled to be commenced\u00a0from\u00a0December 7. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The attorney general reportedly said, &#8220;The state submitted that it might cause communal tension.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 5, the BJP moved the Calcutta High Court, saying it was yet to be given permission to take out three rallies in West Bengal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The party also claimed before the bench that several letters sent to the DG-IGP and the home secretary, seeking permission for the rallies, did not elicit any response.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West Bengal government has denied permission to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah&#8217;s proposed &#8216;rath yatra&#8217; from Coochbehar on grounds that it might cause &#8220;communal tension&#8221;, Attorney General Kishore Dutta informed Calcutta High Court on December 6. Dutta informed the HC that the Coochbehar superintendent of police refused permission for BJP President Shah&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1194,453,10132,6933,10131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306677"}],"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=306677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306679,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306677\/revisions\/306679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}