{"id":305505,"date":"2018-11-14T06:03:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T06:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=305505"},"modified":"2018-11-14T06:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T06:03:01","slug":"political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pandit-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/political-leaders-pay-tribute-to-pandit-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Political leaders pay tribute to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary"},"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-305506 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/nehru-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-768x570.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-696x517.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru-566x420.jpg 566w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/nehru.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress party paid tribute to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India&#8217;s first prime minister, on the occasion of his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paying homage to Pandit Nehru, President Ram Nath Kovind said, \u201cRemembering Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister, on his birth anniversary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled the contribution of Pandit Nehru for Country\u2019s freedom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRemembering our first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary. We recall his contribution to our freedom struggle and during his tenure as Prime Minister,\u201d Prime Minister tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Paying homage to &#8216;India&#8217;s first and the longest serving Prime Minister, Congress party took to its twitter account and tweeted, \u201cIndia&#8217;s first and the longest serving Prime Minister, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru dedicated his life to the nation. He laid the foundations of strong democratic institutions which shaped our modern day democracy. Today we honour the man &amp; the legacy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPt. Jawaharlal Nehru was a visionary, an architect of modern India &amp; a strong believer in the light of India&#8217;s future &#8211; aptly embodied in his love for children. It is this love we celebrate today &amp; his legacy we honour,\u201d Congress added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Born on November 14, 1889, Pandit Nehru was among the central figures in Indian politics before and after independence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Nehru was known as Chacha Nehru among children. His birth anniversary is celebrated as Children&#8217;s Day across India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress party paid tribute to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India&#8217;s first prime minister, on the occasion of his birth anniversary. Paying homage to Pandit Nehru, President Ram Nath Kovind said, \u201cRemembering Shri Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister, on his birth anniversary.\u201d Prime Minister Narendra Modi recalled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9672,9671,407,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305505"}],"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=305505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305507,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305505\/revisions\/305507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}