{"id":312707,"date":"2019-05-30T04:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312707"},"modified":"2019-05-30T04:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T04:45:03","slug":"pm-modi-pays-tribute-at-national-war-memorial-ahead-of-swearing-in-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-pays-tribute-at-national-war-memorial-ahead-of-swearing-in-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi pays tribute at National War Memorial ahead of swearing-in Ceremony"},"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-312708 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"461\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm-690x420.jpg 690w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/pm-modi-nwm.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute at the National War Memorial ahead of his swearing-in ceremony. Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and Vice Chief of Air Force Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria were also present there.<\/span><\/p>\n<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-312709 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/modi-rajghat-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-rajghat-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-rajghat-518x420.jpg 518w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/modi-rajghat.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Modi visited Rajghat and paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, he also paid his respects at the memorial of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He was accompanied by BJP president Amit Shah as well as all other MPs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The swearing-in ceremony will begin at 7 pm, with over 7,000 guests attending an event including foreign dignitaries, allies and adversaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and former prime minister Manmohan Singh will be in attendance for the swearing-in ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday decided not to attend Narendra Modi\u2019s swearing-in ceremony. Referring to the BJP\u2019s allegation that 54 of its workers had been killed in political violence in West Bengal Mamata called it \u201ccompletely untrue\u201d and said there had been no political violence in the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, Arun Jaitley ruled himself out of the new cabinet due to health reasons. He wrote to Narendra Modi that he should be allowed a reasonable time for himself, his treatment and his health and therefore, not be a part of any responsibility, for the present, in the new government.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tribute at the National War Memorial ahead of his swearing-in ceremony. Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat, Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba and Vice Chief of Air Force Air Marshal RKS Bhadauria were also present there. Earlier, Modi visited Rajghat and paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi, he also paid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,10933],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312707"}],"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=312707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312710,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312707\/revisions\/312710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}