{"id":306798,"date":"2018-12-10T05:37:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306798"},"modified":"2018-12-10T05:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T05:37:42","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-meets-family-of-pro-jagdish-thakkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-narendra-modi-meets-family-of-pro-jagdish-thakkar\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi meets family of PRO Jagdish Thakkar"},"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-306799 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/modi-1-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1-485x360.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1-565x420.jpg 565w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/modi-1.jpg 619w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the family of Jagdish Thakkar, a public relations officer in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office who died on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPM @narendramodi met the family of late Shri Jagdish Thakkar and expressed condolences on Jagdishbhai\u2019s unfortunate demise. Shri Thakkar served as the PRO to PM and had previously worked with various Chief Ministers of Gujarat. He distinguished himself as a veteran journalist,\u201d PMO said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed sadness over the demise of Jagdish Thakkar and said that he had the pleasure of working with him for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cExtremely saddened by the demise of Shri Jagdish Thakkar, the PRO in the PMO. Jagdishbhai was a veteran journalist and I had the pleasure of working with him for years, both in Gujarat and in Delhi. He was known for his simplicity and warm-hearted nature,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, Thakkar was being treated in New Delhi\u2019s All India Institute of Medical Sciences since September this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Prime Minister went to AIIMS, where he spent time with the family of late Shri Jagdish Thakkar. Jagdishbhai is fondly remembered by all those people who interacted closely with him. Here is a picture of Shri @narendramodi with Shri Thakkar,\u201d PMO tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thakkar worked with Prime Minister Modi since his days as the chief minister of Gujarat and later joined him in the PMO. He had also worked with various other chief ministers in Gujarat for over three decades.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said, \u201cSeveral journalists would have regularly interacted with Jagdishbhai over the years. He had previously served with many Chief Ministers of Gujarat. We have lost a wonderful person, who loved his work and did it with utmost diligence. Condolences to his family and well wishers,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with the family of Jagdish Thakkar, a public relations officer in the Prime Minister\u2019s Office who died on Monday. \u201cPM @narendramodi met the family of late Shri Jagdish Thakkar and expressed condolences on Jagdishbhai\u2019s unfortunate demise. Shri Thakkar served as the PRO to PM and had previously worked with various [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1379,10181,316,2435,10180],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306798"}],"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=306798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306800,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306798\/revisions\/306800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}