{"id":30773,"date":"2018-10-26T18:10:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30773"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:10:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:40:49","slug":"be-alert-to-operation-dhakka-on-the-toppling-of-the-lenin-statue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/be-alert-to-operation-dhakka-on-the-toppling-of-the-lenin-statue\/","title":{"rendered":"Be alert to Operation \u2018Dhakka\u2019: on the toppling of the Lenin statue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/be-alert-to-operation-dhakka\/article22970928.ece\"><b>Be alert to Operation \u2018Dhakka\u2019: on the toppling of the Lenin statue<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The toppling of the Lenin statue in Tripura<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On March 5<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 2018, saffron-sporting men felled the statue of Lenin- the Russian communist revolutionary<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A second Lenin statue was similarly toppled at another site in the State shortly thereafter<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Syama Prasad Mookerjee and BR\u2009Ambedkar\u2019s statues were defaced in Kolkata and Meerut 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> March<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What has been the government response?<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has condemned the spate of statue vandalism in the country<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The home ministry sent out an advisory to states asking them to prevent such attacks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new Chief Minister of Tripura has also condemned the act of toppling Lenin statue.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Demolitions in the past:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Babri Masjid, Ayodhya, December 6, 1992.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Wali Dakhani Mazaar, Ahmadabad, March 1, 2002.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An estimated 272 minority shrines in Gujarat over six days thereafter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">St. Sebastian\u2019s Church, Dilshad Bagh, Delhi, Christmas Eve, 2014.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The toppling of the Lenin statue in Tripura and similar other statue vandalism across India is a reminder of the grave danger to Indian democracy<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Be alert to Operation \u2018Dhakka\u2019: on the toppling of the Lenin statue Context: The toppling of the Lenin statue in Tripura What has happened? On March 5th 2018, saffron-sporting men felled the statue of Lenin- the Russian communist revolutionary A second Lenin statue was similarly toppled at another site in the State shortly thereafter Syama&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/be-alert-to-operation-dhakka-on-the-toppling-of-the-lenin-statue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Be alert to Operation \u2018Dhakka\u2019: on the toppling of the Lenin statue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704659778},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}