{"id":315492,"date":"2019-10-07T15:34:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315492"},"modified":"2019-10-07T15:34:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T15:34:27","slug":"president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-people-on-eve-of-dussehra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-people-on-eve-of-dussehra\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, Vice President Naidu greet people on eve of Dussehra"},"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-314577 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu.jpg 423w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-356x364.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu-412x420.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/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 and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday extended greetings to his fellow citizens on the eve of Dussehra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In a message President Kovind said, &#8220;On the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashami, I extend my warm greetings and good wishes to all my fellow citizens and wish them success, prosperity and happiness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis festival is a celebration of the triumph of truth over untruth. It inspires us to live by the timeless values of honesty and truthfulness. The life of Lord Rama is in essence a reflection of these values which remain as relevant today as ever,\u201d Kovind said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMay this festival inspire us to work for the nation building and making a society that cares for the needy and the deprived,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naidu in his message said that the festival of Dussehra symbolized the victory of good over evil and we need to constantly quell the demonic forces and foster goodness and harmony. He expressed hope that the festival would bring peace, harmony and prosperity to our country and the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMay\u00a0this festival bring peace, harmony and prosperity to our country and the world,\u201d Naidu added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday extended greetings to his fellow citizens on the eve of Dussehra. In a message President Kovind said, &#8220;On the auspicious occasion of Vijayadashami, I extend my warm greetings and good wishes to all my fellow citizens and wish them success, prosperity and happiness.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":314577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315492"}],"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=315492"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315493,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315492\/revisions\/315493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/314577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}