{"id":311855,"date":"2019-05-03T07:47:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=311855"},"modified":"2019-05-03T07:47:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:47:03","slug":"mamata-banerjee-cancels-political-rallies-for-48-hours-in-view-of-cyclone-fani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mamata-banerjee-cancels-political-rallies-for-48-hours-in-view-of-cyclone-fani\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee cancels political rallies for 48 hours in view of Cyclone Fani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-305724 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Mamata-banerjee-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Mamata-banerjee-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Mamata-banerjee-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/Mamata-banerjee.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday cancelled her political rallies for next 48 hours\u00a0in view of cyclone Fani that has made a landfall in Odisha\u2019s Puri today. She has requested people to stay safe and alert during the storm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the reports, Banerjee\u00a0will be in Kharagpur, near the coastal belt and personally monitor the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHave cancelled my rallies for the next 48 hours because of what could be an impending disaster #CyclonicStormFANI We are monitoring the situation 24&#215;7 and doing all it takes. I appeal to all people to cooperate. Be alert, take care and stay safe for the next two days,\u201d Banerjee tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Flights will not take off or land at Kolkata airport from 3 pm today to 8 am tomorrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Teams of NDRF and ODRAF have been put in place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The severe cyclonic storm Fani made a landfall in Odisha&#8217;s coast with a wind speed of over 175 kmph today morning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday cancelled her political rallies for next 48 hours\u00a0in view of cyclone Fani that has made a landfall in Odisha\u2019s Puri today. She has requested people to stay safe and alert during the storm. As per the reports, Banerjee\u00a0will be in Kharagpur, near the coastal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2014,2917],"tags":[1889],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855"}],"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=311855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311856,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855\/revisions\/311856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}