{"id":316205,"date":"2019-10-31T03:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316205"},"modified":"2019-10-31T03:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T03:48:12","slug":"pm-modi-pays-tribute-to-sardar-patel-on-his-144th-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-pays-tribute-to-sardar-patel-on-his-144th-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi pays tribute to Sardar Patel on his 144th birth anniversary"},"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-316206 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/modi-sardar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"797\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/modi-sardar.jpg 797w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/modi-sardar-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/modi-sardar-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/modi-sardar-696x420.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 797px) 100vw, 797px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid floral tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 144th birth anniversary at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind and Union Home Minister Amit Shah among others paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the day, Prime Minister Modi will also participate in the Ekta Diwas Parade, visit the Technology Demonstration Site and later interact with Civil Service Probationers at Kevadiya, the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi\u2019s government has been observing Sardar Patel&#8217;s birth anniversary as &#8216;Ekta Diwas&#8217; or National Unity Day since 2014 when he came into power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875 in Gujarat\u2019s Nadiad<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid floral tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel on his 144th birth anniversary at the Statue of Unity in Gujarat. President Ram Nath Kovind and Union Home Minister Amit Shah among others paid tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Delhi. During the day, Prime Minister Modi will also participate in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[593,316,9112,9116],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316205"}],"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=316205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316208,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316205\/revisions\/316208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}