{"id":301733,"date":"2018-08-22T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301733"},"modified":"2018-08-22T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T10:46:55","slug":"bjp-to-organize-asthi-kalash-yatras-to-immerse-vajpayees-ashes-in-100-rivers-across-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-to-organize-asthi-kalash-yatras-to-immerse-vajpayees-ashes-in-100-rivers-across-country\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP to organize &#8216;asthi kalash yatras&#8217; to immerse Vajpayee\u2019s ashes in 100 rivers across country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301734 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"688\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-1024x609.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-1068x635.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes-706x420.jpg 706w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Atal-ashes.jpg 1133w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/>At an event organized on August 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah handed over urns wrapped in plain red cloth with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s ashes to state party chiefs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former PM Vajpayee\u2019s foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya along with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj was present on stage as the urns were handed over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BJP will be organising &#8216;asthi kalash yatras&#8217; in different districts to immerse the ashes in 100 rivers across the country with top leadership participating in a ritual. The BJP leaders will organize yatras or processions, and condolence meets, as the urns are taken to rivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The processions will begin from state capitals and will continue through all blocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While addressing the event Minister of State (MoS) Railways Manoj Sinha said, &#8220;Vajpayee played a pivotal role in the development of this country. His appeal to the people of Gazipur during the 1999 election, helped me to win.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Three-time prime minister Vajpayee passed away at the age of 93 on August 16 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At an event organized on August 22 Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah handed over urns wrapped in plain red cloth with former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s ashes to state party chiefs. Former PM Vajpayee\u2019s foster daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya along with Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh, External Affairs Minister Sushma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4345,2208,4344,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301733"}],"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=301733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301735,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301733\/revisions\/301735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}