{"id":311580,"date":"2019-04-23T05:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311580"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T05:16:50","slug":"pm-modi-votes-in-ahmedabad-says-voter-id-more-powerful-than-ied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-votes-in-ahmedabad-says-voter-id-more-powerful-than-ied\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi votes in Ahmedabad, says \u2018voter ID more powerful than IED\u2019"},"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-311581 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/modi-gujarat-260x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"391\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-gujarat-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-gujarat-363x420.jpg 363w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-gujarat.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday cast his vote in Ahmedabad in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said a voter ID is more powerful than the IED (improvised explosive device) of terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;IED is the weapon of terrorism, Voter ID is the strength of democracy. I can say with certainty that the voter ID is much more powerful than an IED, so we should understand the strength of our voter IDs,&#8221; Modi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ahead of voting in Ahmedabad, PM Modi urged voters to come out in \u201crecord numbers\u201d and cast their vote in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cUrging all those voting in today\u2019s Third Phase of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to do so in record numbers. Your vote is precious and will shape the direction our nation takes in the years to come. I\u2019ll be voting in Ahmedabad in a short while from now,\u201d Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Modi met his 98-year-old mother in Gujarat\u2019s Gandhinagar, before driving to Ahmedabad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday cast his vote in Ahmedabad in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections. He said a voter ID is more powerful than the IED (improvised explosive device) of terrorism. &#8220;IED is the weapon of terrorism, Voter ID is the strength of democracy. I can say with certainty that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,1801,2014,2026],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311580"}],"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=311580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311582,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311580\/revisions\/311582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}