{"id":307471,"date":"2018-12-25T07:01:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307471"},"modified":"2018-12-25T07:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T07:01:13","slug":"prime-minister-narendra-modi-pays-tribute-to-atal-bihari-vajpayee-on-his-94th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/prime-minister-narendra-modi-pays-tribute-to-atal-bihari-vajpayee-on-his-94th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Narendra Modi pays tribute to Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 94th birth anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307472 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/vajpayee-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vajpayee-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vajpayee-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vajpayee-696x460.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vajpayee-635x420.jpg 635w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/vajpayee.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday remembered the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and paid tribute to departed leader on his 94th birth anniversary. A special prayer meet was organised at Rashtriya Smriti Sthal in memory of Vajpayee, who died in August 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTributes to Atal Ji on his Jayanti. We reiterate our commitment towards creating the India he dreamt of,\u201d Prime Minister Modi 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 Ram Nath Kovind also remembered former PM Vajapyee 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;\">\u201cRemembering our former Prime Minister and a true Indian statesman, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, on his birth anniversary. Atalji will always live on in the hearts and minds of the people of our country,\u201d Kovind tweeted.<\/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 too paid tribute to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShri Atal Bihari Vajpayee was a leader who was respected and loved by all. A man who believed in the power of democracy above all. We honour him today on his birth anniversary,\u201d Congress tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Atal Bihari Vajpayee, whose 94th birth anniversary is celebrated as Good Governance Day, is remembered by the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Modi released a commemorative coin of Rs 100 in honour of Vajpayee, a Bharat Ratna recipient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking on the occasion, Modi said, \u201cour minds are not ready to believe that former Prime Minister Vajpayee is no longer with us. He was a stalwart loved and respected across all sections of society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday remembered the former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and paid tribute to departed leader on his 94th birth anniversary. A special prayer meet was organised at Rashtriya Smriti Sthal in memory of Vajpayee, who died in August 2018. \u201cTributes to Atal Ji on his Jayanti. We reiterate our commitment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10409,2208,236,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307471"}],"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=307471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307473,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307471\/revisions\/307473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}