{"id":71938,"date":"2020-12-28T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T07:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=71938"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:54:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:54:10","slug":"india-demands-to-make-the-birth-anniversary-of-imam-ali-as-an-official-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/71938-india-demands-to-make-the-birth-anniversary-of-imam-ali-as-an-official-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"India: Demands to make the birth anniversary of Imam Ali as an official holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/01\/photo_2020-12-28_19-10-18.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian political parties and human rights organizations demanded that the government recognizes the birth anniversary of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, as an official holiday in the country, stressing that this is a right of the Shias, and similar to the celebrations and holidays of the rest of the sects and other religions.<br>Syed Abbas Rizvi, a representative of the Justice Front (the Peoples of Jammu and Kashmir), said in a statement followed by Shiawaves, \u201c We demand that an annual day be set to celebrate the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, peace be upon him,&#8221; noting that &#8220;the Shia community is deprived of its rights even in determining official holidays in the country. &#8220;<br>He added, &#8220;We ask the government to declare the 13th of Rajab of every Hijri year as an official holiday, to commemorate the birth of the successor of the Messenger of God, peace be upon him. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian political parties and human rights organizations demanded that the government recognizes the birth anniversary of the Commander of the Faithful, peace be upon him, as an official holiday in the country, stressing that this is a right of the Shias, and similar to the celebrations and holidays of the rest of the sects and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[1638,37,2111],"class_list":["post-71938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-birth-anniversary-of-imam-ali","tag-india","tag-official-holiday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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