{"id":314817,"date":"2019-09-02T04:37:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=314817"},"modified":"2019-09-02T04:37:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T04:37:04","slug":"president-kovind-pm-modi-extend-wishes-on-ganesh-chaturthi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-pm-modi-extend-wishes-on-ganesh-chaturthi\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, PM Modi extend wishes on Ganesh Chaturthi"},"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-305552 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"767\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi.jpg 767w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-696x461.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/kovind-modi-634x420.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended wishes on the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cGanpati Bappa Morya! Greetings and good wishes to fellow citizens on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. May the blessings of Lord Ganesh bring peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone&#8217;s lives,\u201d President Kovind 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;\">PM Modi said, \u201cWishing everyone a blessed Ganesh Chaturthi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu said may this festival bring peace, harmony and prosperity in our country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIn India it is a common practice to invoke and chant the name of Lord Ganesh before the start of any good work, so that all obstacles are removed and success is achieved. May this festival bring peace, harmony and prosperity in our country,\u201d Naidu tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ganesh Chaturthi\u00a0is also called as\u00a0Vinayaka Chaturthi. The celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi marks the birth of Lord Ganesha,<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extended wishes on the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. \u201cGanpati Bappa Morya! Greetings and good wishes to fellow citizens on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. May the blessings of Lord Ganesh bring peace, happiness and prosperity to everyone&#8217;s lives,\u201d President Kovind said in a tweet. PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":305552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[11772,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314817"}],"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=314817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314818,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314817\/revisions\/314818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/305552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}