{"id":169684,"date":"2025-02-23T11:31:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T06:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=169684"},"modified":"2025-02-23T11:31:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T06:31:08","slug":"signboards-in-delhi-blackened-shivaji-posters-pasted-over-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/02\/23\/signboards-in-delhi-blackened-shivaji-posters-pasted-over-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Signboards in Delhi blackened; Shivaji posters pasted over them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169685\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/street.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New Delhi: Signboards were blackened and posters of Hindu Maratha King Shivaji were pasted over them by Hindutva activists in New Delhi, India.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident occurred after a group of people watched the Vicky Kaushal-starrer Hindi film &#8216;Chhava,&#8217; a period drama about Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji, at Akbar Road and Humayun Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said that teams and civic authorities were immediately dispatched to the spot, and the defaced boards were cleaned.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have begun an investigation and are reviewing CCTV footage to identify the culprits. Police are monitoring the situation to prevent further vandalism and ensure law and order.<\/p>\n<p>India has long used Bollywood movies to promote Hindutva ideology across the country, and different films have been used to stoke Muslim hatred. The marginalization of Muslims has increased since the RSS-backed Modi-led BJP government came to power in 2014. Movies like Article 370, The Kashmir Files, and URI: The Surgical Strike aligns with the government&#8217;s narrative, often without regard for facts or the entertainment aspects of cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Signboards were blackened and posters of Hindu Maratha King Shivaji were pasted over them by Hindutva activists in New Delhi, India. According to Kashmir Media Service, the incident occurred after a group of people watched the Vicky Kaushal-starrer Hindi film &#8216;Chhava,&#8217; a period drama about Maratha king Chhatrapati Sambhaji, at Akbar Road and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/02\/street.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169686,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169684\/revisions\/169686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}