{"id":309185,"date":"2019-02-10T05:55:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T05:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309185"},"modified":"2019-02-10T05:55:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T05:55:03","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-greet-nation-on-basant-panchami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-greet-nation-on-basant-panchami\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi greet nation on Basant Panchami"},"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-305552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"508\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-634x420.jpg 634w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On the occasion of Basant Panchami, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended their greetings to the people of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Greetings to fellow citizens on Basant Panchami, Sri Panchami, and Saraswati Puja. May this festive occasion, which heralds&#8217; spring and celebrates learning, spur us to expand the frontiers of education and knowledge in our families, our society and our country,&#8221; President 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;\">PM Modi in his greetings wished for blessings of knowledge and goodwill for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Many greetings to citizens on the festival which symbolises new energy, new ambition and new vigor- Basant Panchami. I wish that Goddess of learning mother Saraswati will provide knowledge and goodwill to all,&#8221; 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;\">Basant Panchami is a festival that marks the arrival of spring celebrated by people in several ways depending on the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">People celebrate the day by wearing yellow, display yellow flowers in homes and eating sweet dishes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Saraswati Puja\u00a0is popular in Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar,\u00a0Rajasthan\u00a0and\u00a0Madhya Pradesh.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of Basant Panchami, President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday extended their greetings to the people of the country. &#8220;Greetings to fellow citizens on Basant Panchami, Sri Panchami, and Saraswati Puja. May this festive occasion, which heralds&#8217; spring and celebrates learning, spur us to expand the frontiers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":305552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[10819,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309185"}],"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=309185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309186,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309185\/revisions\/309186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}