{"id":301523,"date":"2018-08-19T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T09:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301523"},"modified":"2018-08-19T09:30:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T09:30:37","slug":"former-pm-atal-bihari-vajpayees-ashes-immersed-in-haridwar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-pm-atal-bihari-vajpayees-ashes-immersed-in-haridwar\/","title":{"rendered":"Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s ashes immersed in Haridwar"},"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-301524 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/vajpayee-ashes-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/vajpayee-ashes-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/vajpayee-ashes-343x420.jpg 343w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/vajpayee-ashes.jpg 590w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/>Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee\u2019s ashes were immersed on Sunday in River Ganga in Haridwar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ashes of Vajpayee were poured into Ganga at Har-ki-Pauri by his daughter Namita Bhattacharya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ashes of former Prime Minister were taken to Prem Ashram by road, followed by Har-ki-Pauri in Uttarakhand\u2019s Haridwar, where they were immersed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vajpayee took his last breath on Thursday evening at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) and was cremated at Smriti Sthal in New Delhi with full state Honour on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee\u2019s ashes were immersed on Sunday in River Ganga in Haridwar. The ashes of Vajpayee were poured into Ganga at Har-ki-Pauri by his daughter Namita Bhattacharya. The ashes of former Prime Minister were taken to Prem Ashram by road, followed by Har-ki-Pauri in Uttarakhand\u2019s Haridwar, where they were immersed. Vajpayee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2014,2914],"tags":[2208,3498,4216,3720,922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301523"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301525,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301523\/revisions\/301525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}