{"id":300421,"date":"2018-07-16T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300421"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T10:22:31","slug":"west-bengal-20-injured-as-tent-collapses-during-pms-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-20-injured-as-tent-collapses-during-pms-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: 20 injured as tent collapses during PM&#8217;s Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300423 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"679\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-768x359.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-1024x479.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-696x325.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-1068x499.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally-898x420.jpg 898w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-modi-bengal-rally.jpg 1469w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 679px) 100vw, 679px\" \/>At least 20 people injured, when a tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s rally in West Bengal\u2019s Midnapore district on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to officials, the tent was placed next to the main entrance of the venue \u00a0to shelter people from rain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many BJP supporters were seen crowding inside the tent, the situation became so chaotic that the structure started collapsing, seeing the situation PM Modi stopped his speech and told people to move to the safer area, he was telling everyone to be careful and requesting people to get down those who were climbing up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were immediately taken to the hospital with the help of BJP unit as well as Modi\u2019s personal staff. PM Modi later visited the injured in hospital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300422 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/PM-rally-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-rally-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-rally-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-rally-636x420.jpg 636w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/PM-rally.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 20 people injured, when a tent collapsed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s rally in West Bengal\u2019s Midnapore district on Monday. According to officials, the tent was placed next to the main entrance of the venue \u00a0to shelter people from rain. Many BJP supporters were seen crowding inside the tent, the situation became so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[3645,1277,3459,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300424,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300421\/revisions\/300424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}