{"id":307093,"date":"2018-12-16T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307093"},"modified":"2018-12-16T18:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T18:58:45","slug":"sonia-gandhi-unveils-m-karunanidhi-statue-at-dmk-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sonia-gandhi-unveils-m-karunanidhi-statue-at-dmk-headquarters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi unveils M Karunanidhi statue at DMK headquarters"},"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\/sonia-gandhi-unveils-m-karunanidhi-statue-at-dmk-headquarters\/karunanidhi-statue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307094\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307094 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue-768x601.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue-696x544.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue-537x420.jpg 537w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/karunanidhi-statue.jpg 954w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Sunday unveiled the bronze statue of late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader M. Karunanidhi at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters in\u00a0Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">DMK President M.K. Stalin welcomed Sonia Gandhi at the party headquarters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The statue has been installed beside the statue of DMK founder C.N. Annadurai on the premises.<\/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, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and Puducherry Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy were among those who were present at the function.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi took to his twitter account and said, &#8220;The statue of Kalaignar Karunanidhi, one of India\u2019s great sons, was unveiled in Chennai today.\u00a0I thank Shri M K Stalin, friends from the DMK &amp; Congress &amp; the great people of Tamil Nadu, for the warmth &amp; affection they showered on me &amp; Sonia Ji at today\u2019s function.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Actor-turned-politician Rajnikanth also showed his presence at the function.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson and Congress leader Sonia Gandhi on Sunday unveiled the bronze statue of late Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader M. Karunanidhi at Anna Arivalayam, the DMK headquarters in\u00a0Chennai. DMK President M.K. Stalin welcomed Sonia Gandhi at the party headquarters.\u00a0 The statue has been installed beside the statue of DMK founder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[1713,3883,3884,10303,579,1701,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307093"}],"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=307093"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307096,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307093\/revisions\/307096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}