{"id":285393,"date":"2018-02-24T18:11:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T12:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285393"},"modified":"2018-02-24T18:11:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T12:41:53","slug":"ammas-70th-birth-anniv-life-size-statue-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/ammas-70th-birth-anniv-life-size-statue-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Amma\u2019s 70th birth anniv: Life-size statue unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/jayalalithaa_statue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-285395 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/jayalalithaa_statue-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"jayalalithaa_statue\" width=\"348\" height=\"232\" data-id=\"285395\" \/><\/a>All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on February 24 unveiled a statue of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to mark the 70<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0birth anniversary of Amma. A newspaper will also be launched in her memory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">The life-size statue of Jayalalithaa was unveiled by Chief Minister E Palaniswami and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in Daman and will shortly join\u00a0AIADMK\u00a0in Chennai to launch the ambitious Amma Scooter Scheme for working women of Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">Modi has addressed a public meeting in Daman followed by the unveiling of various developmental projects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\u201cIt is wonderful how Daman has become a mini-India. People from all over the country live and work here. I congratulate the people and local administration for making Daman open defecation free. This is a big step,\u201d PM Modi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) on February 24 unveiled a statue of late Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa to mark the 70th\u00a0birth anniversary of Amma. A newspaper will also be launched in her memory. The life-size statue of Jayalalithaa was unveiled by Chief Minister E Palaniswami and Deputy CM O Panneerselvam. \u00a0Meanwhile, Prime Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":285395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,39],"tags":[693,694,695,696,697],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}