{"id":8516,"date":"2026-09-18T03:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2026-09-18T03:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:48:34","slug":"siddaramaiah-statue-up-overnight-down-before-dk-shivakumar-passes-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=8516","title":{"rendered":"Siddaramaiah statue up overnight, down before DK Shivakumar passes by"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-foot Siddaramaiah statue appeared overnight at Kalaburagi&#8217;s High Court Circle. City corporation officials removed the unauthorized installation before CM DK Shivakumar passed. The statue&#8217;s appearance was interpreted as pressure to rename the circle. This group had previously erected a similar statue which was also removed. The incident drew curious crowds who assumed government approval for the statue.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-foot Siddaramaiah statue appeared overnight at Kalaburagi&#8217;s High Court Circle. City corporation officials removed the unauthorized installation before CM DK Shivakumar passed. The statue&#8217;s appearance was interpreted as pressure <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=8516\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}