{"id":311603,"date":"2019-04-24T06:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311603"},"modified":"2019-04-24T06:13:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:13:46","slug":"mamata-gifts-me-kurtas-every-year-pm-modi-says-in-conversation-with-akshay-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-gifts-me-kurtas-every-year-pm-modi-says-in-conversation-with-akshay-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mamata gifts me kurtas every year\u2019: PM Modi says in conversation with Akshay Kumar"},"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-311604 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay-696x413.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay-708x420.jpg 708w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/modi-n-akshay.jpg 892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi in \u2018a candid and completely non-political\u2019 conversation with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar said that he never thought he would become prime minister one day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi also shared that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sends him gifts three-four times a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi said, &#8220;People will be surprised and I should not say this in the election season, but Mamata\u00a0Banerjee sends me gifts every year. She still sends me one or two\u00a0kurtas\u00a0a year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On being asked why he doesn&#8217;t have his family living with him at 7 Lok Kalyan Marg in Delhi, PM Modi said that he relinquished everything when he was young, he left his family at a very young age and that is the reason he is able to bear the separation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While talking about his tenure as Gujarat\u2019s chief minister, PM Modi said that the experience helped him in carrying out his duties as Prime Minister.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akshay took to Twitter to announce that his conversation with the prime minister will be a &#8220;breather&#8221; in election time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A\u00a0day before releasing the conversation, Akshay tweeted, \u201cWhile the whole country is talking elections and politics, here\u2019s a breather. Privileged to have done this candid and COMPLETELY NON-POLITICAL freewheeling conversation with our PM @narendramodi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To which PM Modi replied, \u201cDear @akshaykumar, it was good talking to you about everything, except politics and elections \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m sure people would like watching our conversation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi in \u2018a candid and completely non-political\u2019 conversation with Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar said that he never thought he would become prime minister one day. Modi also shared that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee sends him gifts three-four times a year. Modi said, &#8220;People will be surprised and I should not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[8128,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311603"}],"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=311603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311606,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311603\/revisions\/311606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}