{"id":109227,"date":"2017-10-18T18:11:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=109227"},"modified":"2017-10-18T18:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T12:41:19","slug":"taj-mahal-tejomahal-hindus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/taj-mahal-tejomahal-hindus\/","title":{"rendered":"Taj Mahal was Tejomahal for Hindus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Taj Mahal is originally a Hindu temple and should be renamed &#8220;Tejo Mahal&#8221;, BJP parliamentarian Vinay Katiyar said today, wading into the controversy over the 17th-century Mughal-built monument and some outrageous comments on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109228 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/vinay_katiyarstory_647_060315062208.jpg\" alt=\"   Taj Mahal was Tejomahal for Hindus \" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><br \/>\nKatiyar, a Rajya Sabha member who is a prominent figure in the campaign for a Ram temple at the Babri mosque site in Ayodhya, asserted that the Taj Mahal was built on the ruins of an ancient Shiva temple.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taj Mahal is a Hindu temple. There are many symbols of Hindu gods and goddesses in Taj. It was known as Tejo Mahal and water used to drip from its ceiling&#8230;,&#8221;Mr Katiyar said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Taj Mahal is originally a Hindu temple and should be renamed &#8220;Tejo Mahal&#8221;, BJP parliamentarian Vinay Katiyar said today, wading into the controversy over the 17th-century Mughal-built monument and some outrageous comments on it. Katiyar, a Rajya Sabha member who is a prominent figure in the campaign for a Ram temple at the Babri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[55872,20006,9070,55870,55871,40524],"class_list":["post-109227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-bjp-parliamentarian","tag-hindu-temple","tag-taj-mahal","tag-taj-mahal-was-tejomahal-for-hindus","tag-tejomahal","tag-vinay-katiyar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/e2-10.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}