{"id":313771,"date":"2019-06-28T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313771"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:37:46","slug":"pm-modi-remembers-pv-narasimha-rao-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-remembers-pv-narasimha-rao-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi remembers PV Narasimha Rao on his birth anniversary"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-313772 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/narasimha-rao.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"518\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/narasimha-rao.jpg 518w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/06\/narasimha-rao-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/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 Friday remembered PV Narasimha Rao on his 98th birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi described Narasimha Rao as a &#8220;great scholar and veteran administrator&#8221; who led the country at a crucial juncture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRemembering Shri PV Narasimha Rao Ji on his birth anniversary. A great scholar and veteran administrator, he led the nation at a crucial juncture of our history. He will be remembered for taking pioneering steps that contributed to national progress,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress party in a tweet said, \u201cWe honour P. V. Narsimha Rao on his birth anniversary. He was a visionary leader who oversaw major economic transformations of the Indian economy and dismantling of the License Raj. His contributions to the nation shall always be etched in our memory.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala said Rao&#8217;s immense contribution to the country&#8217;s economic reforms would always be cherished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSolemnly Remembering the 9th Prime Minister of India, Shri PV Narasimha Rao ji on his Birth Anniversary. His immense contribution to the country\u2019s economic reforms would always be cherished. #PVNarasimhaRao,\u201d Surjewala tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Born on June 28, 1921, Narasimha Rao was an Indian\u00a0lawyer\u00a0and\u00a0politician\u00a0who served as the\u00a09th\u00a0Prime Minister of India\u00a0from 1991 to 1996. He passed away in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday remembered PV Narasimha Rao on his 98th birth anniversary. Modi described Narasimha Rao as a &#8220;great scholar and veteran administrator&#8221; who led the country at a crucial juncture. \u201cRemembering Shri PV Narasimha Rao Ji on his birth anniversary. A great scholar and veteran administrator, he led the nation at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":313772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[236,316,9222,2311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313771"}],"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=313771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313773,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313771\/revisions\/313773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/313772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}