{"id":312377,"date":"2019-05-16T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312377"},"modified":"2019-05-16T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T10:29:00","slug":"pm-modi-promises-grand-vidyasagar-statue-at-same-spot-in-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-promises-grand-vidyasagar-statue-at-same-spot-in-kolkata\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi promises grand &#8216;Vidyasagar statue&#8217; at same spot in Kolkata"},"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-312378 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP-768x439.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP-696x397.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP-736x420.jpg 736w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/PM-Modi-UP.jpg 923w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised to build a &#8220;grand statue&#8221; of 19th-century reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at the same spot where his bust was vandalised during the clashes at Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow in Kolkata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi said, \u201cTrinamool workers\u201d destroyed the statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Kolkata<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe saw hooliganism by TMC workers again during Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow in Kolkata, they vandalized Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar\u2019s statue. We are committed to Vidyasagar\u2019s vision and will install his grand statue at the same spot,\u201d said PM Modi at a rally in Uttar Pradesh\u2019s Mau.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC spokesperson Derek O\u2019 Brien reacted with a tweet calling PM Modi \u201ca liar\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Amit Shah had accused the Trinamool of orchestrating violence during his Kolkata roadshow. He alleged that TMC party workers were part of a conspiracy to vandalise the statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. He presented some photographs to the media to prove his point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Trinamool hit back and said they have video evidence that establishes the BJP\u2019s complicity in the violence and vandalism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah said in his tweet, \u201cThe BJP can team up with the EC in West Bengal, they can have a tailor made campaign designed to fragment &amp; polarise the electorate, they can have all their model code violations overlooked. None of it will matter because on the 23rd @MamataOfficial didi will sweep West Bengal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Election Commission (EC) on Wednesday curtailed campaigning in Bengal over the violence, and said it was &#8220;deeply anguished at the vandalism done to the statue&#8221; of an icon.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised to build a &#8220;grand statue&#8221; of 19th-century reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at the same spot where his bust was vandalised during the clashes at Amit Shah\u2019s roadshow in Kolkata. PM Modi said, \u201cTrinamool workers\u201d destroyed the statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in Kolkata \u201cWe saw hooliganism by TMC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312378,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[3939,316,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312377"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312380,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312377\/revisions\/312380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}