{"id":312622,"date":"2019-05-27T04:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312622"},"modified":"2019-05-27T04:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T04:42:49","slug":"rahul-gandhi-sonia-gandhi-pay-tribute-to-first-pm-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-55th-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-sonia-gandhi-pay-tribute-to-first-pm-jawaharlal-nehru-on-his-55th-death-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi pay tribute to first PM Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th 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-312623 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/rahul-sonia.jpg 808w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, among others, paid tribute to the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRahul Gandhi remembered Jawaharlal Nehru for his contribution in building strong, independent, modern institutions, that have helped democracy survive in India for over 70 years<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMany democratic nations as young as India, soon degenerated into dictatorships. On his death anniversary, let us remember Jawaharlal Nehru Ji\u2019s contribution in building strong, independent, modern institutions, that have helped democracy survive in India for over 70 years,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/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, \u201cFormer Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, UPA Chairperson Smt Sonia Gandhi and Congress President @RahulGandhi paid tributes to India&#8217;s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFormer President Pranab Mukherjee and former Vice President Hamid Ansari paid their respects to former Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary, Congress party added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Narendra Modi also paid tributes to Pandit Nehru on his death anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cTributes to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on his death anniversary. We remember his contributions to our nation,\u201d Modi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, UPA chairperson Sonia, Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, among others, paid tribute to the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his 55th death anniversary on Monday. \u201cRahul Gandhi remembered Jawaharlal Nehru for his contribution in building strong, independent, modern institutions, that have helped democracy survive in India for over 70 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9671,579,1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312622"}],"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=312622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312624,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312622\/revisions\/312624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}