{"id":314510,"date":"2019-08-07T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314510"},"modified":"2019-08-07T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T11:30:08","slug":"sushma-swaraj-cremated-with-state-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sushma-swaraj-cremated-with-state-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushma Swaraj cremated with state honours"},"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-314511 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/sushma-swaraj-creamation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sushma-swaraj-creamation.jpg 681w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sushma-swaraj-creamation-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sushma-swaraj-creamation-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/sushma-swaraj-creamation-583x420.jpg 583w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/>Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has been cremated with full state honours at Lodhi Crematorium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid their last respects to Swaraj.\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 due to cardiac arrest at Delhi&#8217;s All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi visited the residence of\u00a0Veteran leader Sushma Swaraj and paid his last respects. Emotional Prime Minister consoled Swaraj\u2019s husband and daughter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Remembering the veteran politician, Prime Minister Modi, in a tweet last night, said\u00a0a glorious chapter in Indian politics has come to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA glorious chapter in Indian politics comes to an end. India grieves the demise of a remarkable leader who devoted her life to public service and bettering lives of the poor. Sushma Swaraj Ji was one of her kind, who was a source of inspiration for crores of people,\u201d Modi said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hours before her death, Swaraj in her tweet had congratulated and thanked Prime Minister Modi about the government\u2019s move on Jammu and Kashmir and said that she was waiting to see this day in her lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj has been cremated with full state honours at Lodhi Crematorium. PM Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla paid their last respects to Swaraj.\u00a0 Swaraj passed away on Tuesday due to cardiac arrest at Delhi&#8217;s All India Institute of Medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[892],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314510"}],"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=314510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314512,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314510\/revisions\/314512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}