{"id":308968,"date":"2019-02-04T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308968"},"modified":"2019-02-04T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T18:05:31","slug":"nitin-gadkari-and-sushma-swaraj-flag-off-suraksha-yatra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/nitin-gadkari-and-sushma-swaraj-flag-off-suraksha-yatra\/","title":{"rendered":"Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj flag off Suraksha Yatra"},"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\/nitin-gadkari-and-sushma-swaraj-flag-off-suraksha-yatra\/suraksha-yatra\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308969\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-308969 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/suraksha-yatra-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"573\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/suraksha-yatra-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/suraksha-yatra-503x420.jpg 503w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/suraksha-yatra.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a>Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways, Nitin Gadkari and \u00a0External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj on Monday flagged off\u00a0Suraksha Yatra\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0a motor car rally from Rajghat in New Delhi to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The flag off was also part of an event to launch the 30th\u00a0National Road Safety Week. The rally will travel through places historically associated with Mahatma Gandhi, both in India, as well as in Bangladesh and Myanmar and will pass through Sabarmati, Porbandar, Dandi, Yerwada, Sewagram, Jabalpur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, ChauriChaura, Champaran, Shantiniketan and Kolkata in India before traveling to Dhaka in Bangladesh. It will conclude at Yangon in Myanmar on the 24th of February, covering a total distance of 7250 km. The rally is part of the year-long celebrations to commemorate the 150th year of Mahatma Gandhi in India and across the globe, initiated by Government of India on 2nd October last year. It will take up advocacy on Road Safety concerns along the route.<\/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, Gadkari said, \u201cthe objective of the rally is to spread Gandhiji\u2019s message of\u00a0Satya and\u00a0Ahimsa\u00a0among people.\u201d He said Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s\u00a0ideals\u00a0are very relevant in today\u2019s times and are respected by people the world over. Gadkari said that since Mahatma Gandhi is an inspiration for society, this rally on his 150th\u00a0birth anniversary can have a big impact in creating awareness on the issues of road safety. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj called upon road users to adopt Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s principles of Peace, Patience\u00a0and\u00a0Tolerance for improving road\u00a0behaviour. She referred to the increasing cases of road-rage, and said that a large number of road accidents occur because people are not mentally at peace while driving, they are impatient and intolerant. She said, adopting Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s principles can help in making people more peaceful, patient and tolerant, thereby preventing road accidents.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Minister for Road Transport &amp; Highways, Nitin Gadkari and \u00a0External Affairs Minister, Sushma Swaraj on Monday flagged off\u00a0Suraksha Yatra\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0a motor car rally from Rajghat in New Delhi to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The flag off was also part of an event to launch the 30th\u00a0National Road Safety Week. The rally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":308969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2746,4027,10785,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308968"}],"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=308968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308971,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308968\/revisions\/308971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}