{"id":312424,"date":"2019-05-18T12:20:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312424"},"modified":"2019-05-18T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T12:20:15","slug":"bjp-president-amit-shah-offers-prayers-at-somnath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-president-amit-shah-offers-prayers-at-somnath-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP President Amit Shah offers prayers at Somnath temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/bjp-president-amit-shah-offers-prayers-at-somnath-temple\/amit-shah-somnath\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312425\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312425 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath-696x506.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath-577x420.jpg 577w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/amit-shah-somnath.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a>BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday offered prayers at famous Somnath temple in Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah was accompanied by his family members. &#8211; his wife, a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They performed rituals at the temple dedicated to Lord Shiva.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">His visit came a day after campaigning for the general election came to a close.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi offered prayers at the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Polling for the last phase of Lok Sabha elections will take place on Sunday. Counting of votes will take place on May 23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BJP president Amit Shah on Saturday offered prayers at famous Somnath temple in Gujarat. Shah was accompanied by his family members. &#8211; his wife, a son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. They performed rituals at the temple dedicated to Lord Shiva. His visit came a day after campaigning for the general election came to a close. Earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312425,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1194,593,11385],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312424"}],"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=312424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312428,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312424\/revisions\/312428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}