{"id":50823,"date":"2018-11-04T02:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=50823"},"modified":"2018-11-04T02:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:34:30","slug":"statue-of-unity-built-to-divide-nation-apcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/11\/04\/statue-of-unity-built-to-divide-nation-apcc\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Statue of Unity&#8217; built to divide nation: APCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Nov 3:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the &#8216;Statue of Unity&#8217; in Gujarat had been built to divide the nation.<br \/>\n&#8220;As many as 75,000 people and 72 tribal villages have been affected by the Statue of Unity. Land and farms of the Adivasis have been taken away to build the statue,&#8221; said APCC vice-president Minkir Lollen.<br \/>\nHe said the Modi-led BJP government jailed the tribal protesters and activists who protested for their rights during the unveiling ceremony of the statue.<br \/>\n&#8220;The soul of Sardar Patel would never be happy to build a statue of his own, displacing so many people,&#8221; Lollen said.<br \/>\n&#8220;Today Modi is proud of himself for unveiling Sadar Patel&#8217;s statue. But there was a time when the BJP had protested against the naming of the Ahmedabad airport after Sardar Vallabhai Patel by waiving black flags,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nStating that the statue need not necessarily be the tallest in the world to honour Sardar Patel, the APCC vice president said, &#8220;Modi spent Rs 3000 crore to build the statue, which will continue to remind the false promises made by him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Nov 3: The Arunachal Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the &#8216;Statue of Unity&#8217; in Gujarat had been built to divide the nation. &#8220;As many as 75,000 people and 72 tribal villages have been affected by the Statue of Unity. Land and farms of the Adivasis have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}