{"id":314496,"date":"2019-08-07T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314496"},"modified":"2019-08-07T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T06:24:08","slug":"pm-modi-top-leaders-pay-tribute-to-sushma-swaraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-top-leaders-pay-tribute-to-sushma-swaraj\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi, top leaders pay tribute to Sushma Swaraj"},"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-314499 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"519\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi.jpg 396w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/PM-Modi-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 519px) 100vw, 519px\" \/><\/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 Wednesday visited the residence of\u00a0Veteran leader Sushma Swaraj and paid his last respects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Emotional Prime Minister consoled Swaraj\u2019s husband and daughter. He will attend her funeral in the evening, official sources said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister\u00a0Amit Shah, BSP supremo Mayawati, UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi were among the politicians, diplomats and common people who paid last respects to the veteran leader at her residence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj&#8217;s body will be kept at the BJP headquarters from noon to 3 pm. Then, her body will be taken to the Lodhi Road crematorium for the last rites.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Swaraj passed away on Tuesday night due to cardiac arrest. She was 67.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday visited the residence of\u00a0Veteran leader Sushma Swaraj and paid his last respects. Emotional Prime Minister consoled Swaraj\u2019s husband and daughter. He will attend her funeral in the evening, official sources said. President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, Home Minister\u00a0Amit Shah, BSP supremo Mayawati, UPA chairperson Sonia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314496"}],"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=314496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314500,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314496\/revisions\/314500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}