{"id":11141,"date":"2012-12-22T16:52:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11141"},"modified":"2012-12-22T16:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T15:52:37","slug":"lord-krishna-might-nuke-russian-president%e2%80%99s-india-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=11141","title":{"rendered":"Lord Krishna might nuke Russian President\u2019s India visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/192012-12-22-16-5019.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><strong>By Rohit Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Instead of focusing on the woes of Russian telecom major Sistema and the Kundankulam nuclear plant, which Russian president Vladimir Putin is expected to red-flag during his one-day visit to New Delhi on Monday, the Indian Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) authorities in Moscow expect Indian decision-makers to take note of their plight. The devotees face eviction even from the makeshift temple premises (an iron shack constructed after the main temple was razed in 2004) from January 15, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>A chilling video of devotees of Lord Krishna facing sub-minus-18-degree Moscow temperatures, a few still pictures and a petition have been shared with the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO), addressed to principal secretary Pulok Chatterji and other senior interlocutors, including foreign minister Salman Khurshid (please see attachments).<\/p>\n<p>Iskcon\u2019s aim is to counter syrupy press coverage being orchestrated for Putin\u2019s New Delhi visit and instead turn focus on the sordid sequence of events in Moscow, where the city\u2019s only Hindu temple was bulldozed to the ground in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>After much outcry in India, including actress Hema Malini and some top industrialists, prime minister Manmohan Singh intervened with Putin and Iskcon was allowed to construct a corrugated iron shack with no sewers or heating, with the promise that they would be able replace it with a more dignified permanent temple.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Moscow city administration is now citing \u201cimproprieties\u201d in their own allotment order, as the structure allegedly \u201cviolates the urban planning code,\u201d and \u201chas no legal ground.\u201d This follows a near fait accompli Iskcon faced in December 2011 regarding a ban on Bhagwad Gita in a court case slammed on Iskcon in the city of Tomsk.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/governancenow.com\/news\/regular-story\/lord-krishna-might-nuke-russian-president-s-india-visit\">http:\/\/governancenow.com\/news\/regular-story\/lord-krishna-might-nuke-russian-president-s-india-visit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads2\/362012-12-22-16-4636.jpg\"\/><strong>By Rohit Bansal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Beleaguered Iskcon authorities in Moscow expect Indian decision-makers to take note of their plight and take up the issue during Putin\u2019s visit to New Delhi on Monday<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}