{"id":309260,"date":"2019-02-12T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309260"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:10:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T10:10:49","slug":"president-kovind-unveils-portrait-of-former-pm-atal-bihari-vajpayee-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-unveils-portrait-of-former-pm-atal-bihari-vajpayee-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind unveils portrait of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Parliament"},"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-309261 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/atal-potray-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/atal-potray-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/atal-potray-473x420.jpg 473w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/atal-potray.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was unveiled at the Central Hall of Parliament on Tuesday by President Ram Nath Kovind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Speaker Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister addressed the gathering on the occasion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said, \u201cNow on, Atal Vajpayee will be forever in the Parliament&#8217;s Central Hall, inspiring us and blessing us. If we start talking about the goodness of Vajpayee, it will take hours and hours. Vajpayee had a long political career, a large part of that career was spent in Opposition. Yet, he continued raising issues of public interest and never ever deviated from his ideology. There was power in Vajpayee\u2019s speech and there was equal power in his silence. His communication skills were unparalleled. He had a great sense of humour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A portrait of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee was unveiled at the Central Hall of Parliament on Tuesday by President Ram Nath Kovind. Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Speaker Lok Sabha Sumitra Mahajan and several other dignitaries were present on the occasion. Prime Minister addressed the gathering on the occasion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":309261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2208,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309260"}],"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=309260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309262,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309260\/revisions\/309262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}