{"id":312484,"date":"2019-05-21T04:36:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312484"},"modified":"2019-05-21T04:36:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T04:36:22","slug":"rahul-gandhi-manmohan-singh-pays-homage-to-former-pm-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-manmohan-singh-pays-homage-to-former-pm-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-death-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi, Manmohan Singh pays homage to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary"},"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-312485 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-gandhi-delhi.jpg 822w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress party said in a tweet, \u201cWe honour and remember former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary today. A visionary leader and a fine human being. He stood for compassion, love &amp; truth. He is dearly missed today and everyday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Let us build an India proud of her independence, strong, self-reliant&#8230; united by bonds transcending caste creed &amp; region; liberated from the bondage of poverty, &amp; of social &amp; economic inequity&#8221; Today we honour the life of Late PM Shri Rajiv Gandhi,\u201d Congress party added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944. He was an Indian politician who served as the 6th\u00a0Prime Minister of India\u00a0from 1984 to 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He took office after the\u00a0assassination\u00a0of his mother and Prime Minister\u00a0Indira Gandhi to become the youngest Indian PM at the age of 40.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in 1991, and the day is observed every year as &#8216;Anti-Terrorism Day&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday paid homage to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary. Congress party said in a tweet, \u201cWe honour and remember former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary today. A visionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,2149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312484"}],"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=312484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312487,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312484\/revisions\/312487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}