{"id":310384,"date":"2019-03-13T05:19:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310384"},"modified":"2019-03-13T05:26:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T05:26:35","slug":"priyanka-gandhi-vadra-tweets-for-first-time-recalls-words-of-mahatma-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/priyanka-gandhi-vadra-tweets-for-first-time-recalls-words-of-mahatma-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Priyanka Gandhi Vadra tweets for first time, recalls words of Mahatma Gandhi"},"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-308453 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/priyanka-gandhi-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/priyanka-gandhi-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/priyanka-gandhi-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/priyanka-gandhi.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her debut speech on Tuesday in Gandhinagar also made her first tweets hours later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The tweets were related to her first visit to Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s Sabarmati Ashram.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn the simple dignity of Sabarmati, the truth lives on,\u201d Priyanka said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She also tweeted, quoting the Father of the Nation against violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent,\u201d Mahatma Gandhi, Priyanka said in another tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Priyanka had garnered a massive response on joining Twitter, attracting over one lakh followers on the social media platform within a few hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Priyanka was appointed\u00a0as AICC\u00a0General Secretary\u00a0for Uttar Pradesh East by\u00a0Congress\u00a0president\u00a0Rahul Gandhi\u00a0on January 23.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made her debut speech on Tuesday in Gandhinagar also made her first tweets hours later. The tweets were related to her first visit to Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s Sabarmati Ashram. \u201cIn the simple dignity of Sabarmati, the truth lives on,\u201d Priyanka said. She also tweeted, quoting the Father of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[4279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310384"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310390,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310384\/revisions\/310390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}