{"id":303509,"date":"2018-10-02T04:54:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=303509"},"modified":"2018-10-02T04:54:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T04:54:21","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-mahatma-gandhi-at-rajghat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-mahatma-gandhi-at-rajghat\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi pay tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tribute-to-mahatma-gandhi-at-rajghat\/rajghat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-303510\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-303510 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rajghat-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rajghat-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rajghat-669x420.jpg 669w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rajghat.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>President\u00a0Ram Nath Kovind and\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi on Tuesday paid floral tribute to\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi\u00a0at\u00a0Rajghat, on\u00a0his 149th birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The day also marks the launch of 150th-anniversary celebrations of\u00a0Father of Nation -Mahatma Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister said it is a great opportunity for all of us to come together and fulfil Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;From today, we are entering Pujya Bapu&#8217;s 150th anniversary year. It is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to come together and fulfill his dreams,&#8221; Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi will also visit\u00a0Vijay Ghat\u00a0to offer floral tributes to former\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Lal Bahadur Shastri\u00a0on\u00a0his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister will also attend the closing session of the\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi\u00a0International Sanitation Convention (MGISC) at\u00a0Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Later in the day,\u00a0Modi\u00a0will inaugurate the first Assembly of the\u00a0International Solar Alliance\u00a0at Vigyan Bhawan. The same event will also mark the inauguration of the second IORA Renewable Energy Ministerial Meeting, and the 2nd Global RE-Invest (Renewable Energy Investors&#8217; Meet and Expo).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress President Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Congress President was among the first of the senior leaders to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi at his iconic memorial this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Gandhiji is not an immobile statue, he is a living set of ideas and values flowing through India. Truth and non-violence, which he lived for and was killed for are the foundation of our country. True\u00a0 patriots must protect them,&#8221; Rahul Gandhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Ram Nath Kovind and\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra\u00a0Modi on Tuesday paid floral tribute to\u00a0Mahatma Gandhi\u00a0at\u00a0Rajghat, on\u00a0his 149th birth anniversary. The day also marks the launch of 150th-anniversary celebrations of\u00a0Father of Nation -Mahatma Gandhi. The Prime Minister said it is a great opportunity for all of us to come together and fulfil Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s dreams. &#8220;From today, we are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":303510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2244,2746,316,579,5320,1452,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303509"}],"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=303509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303512,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303509\/revisions\/303512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/303510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}