{"id":307659,"date":"2019-01-01T10:03:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307659"},"modified":"2019-01-01T10:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T10:03:11","slug":"koregaon-bhima-anniversary-thousands-pay-tribute-at-jay-stambh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/koregaon-bhima-anniversary-thousands-pay-tribute-at-jay-stambh\/","title":{"rendered":"Koregaon Bhima anniversary: Thousands pay tribute at \u2018Jay Stambh\u2019"},"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=\" wp-image-307660 aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/bhima-koregaon-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"463\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bhima-koregaon-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/bhima-koregaon.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of people, mainly Dalits on Tuesday gathered at the \u2018Jay Stambh\u2019 memorial in Pune district to pay tributes on the 201st anniversary of the Koregaon Bhima battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Heavy security beefed up to avoid the repeat of last year\u2019s violence when one person was killed and several others injured following cast clashes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over thousands of police personnel, Home Guards and 12 companies of the State Reserve Police Force (SRPF) have been deployed in and around Perne village where people are paying tributes at the war memorial, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Apart from large-scale police deployment, 500 CCTV cameras, 11 drone cameras and 40 video cameras are monitoring the area, a senior police officer said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Internet services in and around Perne village have also been suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Koregaon Bhima, dedicated to a battle that saw Dalit soldiers fighting with the British and defeating the army of the upper caste Peshwas or rulers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The \u2018Jay Stambh\u2019 was erected by the British as a commemorative for soldiers killed in the Koregaon Bhima battle on January 1, 1818.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people, mainly Dalits on Tuesday gathered at the \u2018Jay Stambh\u2019 memorial in Pune district to pay tributes on the 201st anniversary of the Koregaon Bhima battle. Heavy security beefed up to avoid the repeat of last year\u2019s violence when one person was killed and several others injured following cast clashes. Over thousands of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[10472,10474,1467,10473,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307659"}],"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=307659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307661,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307659\/revisions\/307661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}