{"id":302729,"date":"2018-09-17T06:10:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T06:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302729"},"modified":"2018-09-17T06:10:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T06:10:06","slug":"pm-modi-to-visit-varanasi-to-celebrate-his-68th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-to-visit-varanasi-to-celebrate-his-68th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to Visit Varanasi to celebrate his 68th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/development-or-betrayal-know-four-years-of-modi-government\/modi-4-years\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-299601\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-299601 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-1068x733.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1-612x420.jpg 612w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/06\/modi-4-years-1.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will celebrate his 68th birthday on September 17, in his parliamentary\u00a0constituency Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to reports, PM Modi will spend the day with children of a primary school aided by a non-profit organisation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources says, he will later pay obeisance to Lord Shiva at the Kashi Vishwanath temple and also watch a film &#8220;Chalo Jeete Hain&#8221; inspired by his life along with a few school children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On his 68th birthday, a special cleanliness drive will also be launched and health camps will also be organised in the town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi is also likely to launch several developmental projects &#8211; including the expansion of the Babatpur-Shivpur road, Ring Road phase I and a few projects at the Banaras Hindu University &#8211; during his visit to Varanasi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wishes have already started poured in on PM\u2019s Modi birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Home Minister Rajnath Singh took to his twitter account and wished Modi on his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWarm greetings to Shri @narendramodi on his birthday. Under his leadership India has grown tremendously and became the 6th largest economy of the world. He is a man of vision and action who is working assiduously to fulfil the dream of New India. I wish him good health &amp;long life,\u201d Rajnath tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Admi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal took to Twitter to wish Prime Minister Modi a long and healthy life on his 68th birthday<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c@narendramodi A very happy birthday to Hon\u2019ble Prime Minister. I wish him long and healthy life,\u201d Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President of India, Ram Nath Kovind extended his wishes to Prime Minister Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBirthday greetings to our Prime Minister @narendramodi. Wish him a long life and many years of dedicated service to the people of the country #PresidentKovind,\u201d President tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Finance Minister Arun Jaitley wished Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his birthday. He wished him good health and a long life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Warm birthday compliments to the dynamic &amp; illustrious Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi ji. I wish him good health and a long life. May he continue to render for many more years his exceptional services to the nation and guide the country to its glory. @narendramodi,&#8221; Arun Jaitley tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will celebrate his 68th birthday on September 17, in his parliamentary\u00a0constituency Varanasi. According to reports, PM Modi will spend the day with children of a primary school aided by a non-profit organisation.\u00a0 Sources says, he will later pay obeisance to Lord Shiva at the Kashi Vishwanath temple and also watch a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":299601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[5052,1277,1543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302729"}],"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=302729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302730,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302729\/revisions\/302730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}