{"id":311655,"date":"2019-04-25T13:37:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311655"},"modified":"2019-04-25T20:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:07:40","slug":"pm-narendra-modi-begins-roadshow-in-varanasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-narendra-modi-begins-roadshow-in-varanasi\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Narendra Modi holds mega roadshow in Varanasi"},"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-311656 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi-696x468.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi-624x420.jpg 624w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/04\/MOdi-varanasi.jpg 804w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roadshow in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, a day ahead of filing his nomination paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Thousands of people lined up the narrow streets of Varanasi to get a glimpse of PM Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Modi waved at the people on the roads from the sunroof of his SUV. He began his 7-km roadshow from the iconic Banaras Hindu University (BHU), where he paid tribute at a statue of Madan Mohan Malviya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">He was joined by top BJP leaders, including party president Amit Shah, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Union Ministers and other senior BJP leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The roadshow that began from the Banaras Hindu University (BHU)\u00a0ended at the Dashashwamedh Ghat where Modi watched the Ganga aarti being performed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">On Friday he will file his nomination papers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held a roadshow in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh, a day ahead of filing his nomination paper. Thousands of people lined up the narrow streets of Varanasi to get a glimpse of PM Modi. Modi waved at the people on the roads from the sunroof of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":311656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2014,2015],"tags":[316,1543],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311655"}],"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=311655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311660,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311655\/revisions\/311660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/311656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}