{"id":315125,"date":"2019-09-19T06:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315125"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:23:25","slug":"rajnath-singh-becomes-first-defence-minister-to-fly-in-indigenous-lca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rajnath-singh-becomes-first-defence-minister-to-fly-in-indigenous-lca\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajnath Singh becomes first Defence Minister to fly in indigenous LCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"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-315126 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/rajnath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"501\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/rajnath.jpg 755w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/rajnath-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/rajnath-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/09\/rajnath-633x420.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/>Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He became the first defence minister to fly in the indigenously Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tejas is a light combat aircraft developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a tweet, Singh said, \u201cAll Set For The Day!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Defence Minister took off for a 30-minute sortie. He was accompanied by Air Vice Marshal N Tiwari<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh termed his flight &#8220;exhilarating&#8221; and &#8220;amazing&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFlying on \u2018Tejas\u2019, an Indigenous Light Combat Aircraft from Bengaluru\u2019s HAL Airport was an amazing and exhilarating experience. Tejas is a multi-role fighter with several critical capabilities. It is meant to strengthen India\u2019s air defence capabilities,\u201d Rajnath said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Singh said, he would also be attending certain programmes in Bengaluru.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLeaving New Delhi for a two day visit to Bengaluru. Shall attend certain programmes organised by @HALHQBLR &amp; @DRDO_India. Look forward it,\u201d he had tweeted on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday flew in the Tejas fighter aircraft from the HAL airport in Bengaluru. He became the first defence minister to fly in the indigenously Light Combat Aircraft (LCA). Tejas is a light combat aircraft developed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). In a tweet, Singh said, \u201cAll Set For The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1343,11811,2597,11810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315125"}],"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=315125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315128,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315125\/revisions\/315128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}