{"id":314660,"date":"2019-08-16T04:20:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T04:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314660"},"modified":"2019-08-16T04:20:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T04:20:25","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tributes-to-vajpayee-on-his-first-death-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-pay-tributes-to-vajpayee-on-his-first-death-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi pay tributes to Vajpayee on his first death 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-314661 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi.jpg 676w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-modi-561x420.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with key BJP leaders on Friday paid tribute\u00a0to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his first death anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Kovind, PM Modi and numerous top BJP leaders visited the memorial of the former prime minister in Delhi today morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s daughter Namita Kaul Bhattacharya and granddaughter Niharika were also present at the prayer meet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP\u00a0national\u00a0working president JP Nadda were among the leaders of the party who paid tributes to Vajpayee at his memorial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vajpayee died on August 16 last year at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after a prolonged illness. He was 93.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He was the first-ever leader from the BJP to have become the country\u2019s Prime Minister.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with key BJP leaders on Friday paid tribute\u00a0to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his first death anniversary. President Kovind, PM Modi and numerous top BJP leaders visited the memorial of the former prime minister in Delhi today morning. Atal Bihari Vajpayee&#8217;s daughter Namita Kaul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2208,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314660"}],"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=314660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314662,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314660\/revisions\/314662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}