{"id":311256,"date":"2019-04-14T06:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311256"},"modified":"2019-04-14T06:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T06:35:49","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-homage-to-dr-br-ambedkar-on-his-128th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-homage-to-dr-br-ambedkar-on-his-128th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi pay homage to Dr BR Ambedkar on his 128th birth anniversary"},"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-305552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"359\" 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: 541px) 100vw, 541px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to the father of the Indian Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar on his 128th birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHomage to Dr B.R. Ambedkar on his birth anniversary. An icon of our nation, and Chief Architect of the Constitution, Dr Ambedkar waged a life-long struggle for a modern India free of caste and other prejudices, ensuring equal rights for women and weaker sections,\u201d President Kovind tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi also paid tributes to Dr B R Ambedkar on his birth anniversary.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a tweet, Modi said, \u201cDr Ambdekar was a pioneer of social justice and chief architect of the Indian constitution.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Popularly known as\u00a0Babasaheb Ambedkar, he was an Indian\u00a0jurist,\u00a0politician,\u00a0economist and\u00a0social reformer\u00a0who inspired the\u00a0Dalit Buddhist movement\u00a0and campaigned against social\u00a0discrimination towards the\u00a0untouchables, women and\u00a0labourers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was independent India&#8217;s first\u00a0law and justice minister, the architect of the\u00a0Constitution of India, and a founding father of the\u00a0Republic of India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to the father of the Indian Constitution Dr BR Ambedkar on his 128th birth anniversary. \u201cHomage to Dr B.R. Ambedkar on his birth anniversary. An icon of our nation, and Chief Architect of the Constitution, Dr Ambedkar waged a life-long struggle for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11255,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311256"}],"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=311256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311259,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311256\/revisions\/311259"}],"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=311256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}