{"id":328652,"date":"2020-11-16T06:01:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328652"},"modified":"2020-11-16T06:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T06:01:54","slug":"religious-places-reopen-in-maharashtra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/religious-places-reopen-in-maharashtra\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious places reopen in Maharashtra"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-328653 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/temple-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/temple-1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/temple-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/temple-1-659x420.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/>Religious places in Maharashtra, which were shut since the imposition of\u00a0COVID-19 lockdown\u00a0in March, reopened on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Devotees, visiting religious places, will have to follow strict COVID-19 guidelines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many\u00a0devotees were seen visiting the iconic Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai since morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposition BJP in the state had been seeking reopening of the religious places and earlier questioned the Thackeray government&#8217;s decision to not reopen places of worship at a time when restaurants and bars were allowed to reopen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The issue had also led to bitter exchange of words between Thackeray and state Governor B S Koshyari, who reminded the Shiv Sena chief of his Hindutva credentials and asked if he had turned secular.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hitting back, Thackeray had said his Hindutva did not require a certificate from the governor or anyone. \u201cAs imposing lockdown all of a sudden was not right, revoking it completely at once will also not be a good thing,\u201d the Chief Minister had said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious places in Maharashtra, which were shut since the imposition of\u00a0COVID-19 lockdown\u00a0in March, reopened on Monday. Devotees, visiting religious places, will have to follow strict COVID-19 guidelines. Many\u00a0devotees were seen visiting the iconic Siddhivinayak Temple in Mumbai since morning. The opposition BJP in the state had been seeking reopening of the religious places and earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328652"}],"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=328652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328655,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328652\/revisions\/328655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}