{"id":318173,"date":"2019-12-25T02:33:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T02:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318173"},"modified":"2019-12-25T02:33:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T02:33:17","slug":"president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-nation-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-kovind-vice-president-naidu-greet-nation-on-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kovind, Vice President Naidu greet nation on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-314577 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/kovind-naidu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"431\" 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: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/>The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has greeted the nation on the eve of Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a message the President said, \u201cOn the joyous occasion of Christmas, I extend my greetings to all my fellow citizens in India and abroad, especially to my Christian brothers and sisters.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ whose life has been an inspiration to the humanity to follow the message of love, compassion and fraternity. Today, when the world finds itself tormented by strife, hatred and violence, his words and deeds have the power to heal wounds and show the way out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Let us today reaffirm our resolve to walk on the path he has shown and create a kinder and more egalitarian society\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Vice President M.Venkaiah Naidu also wished the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In a message to the nation, he said that the story of Jesus Christ is a saga of truth, love and hope and added that Christ embraced humanity with all its flaws and imperfections and loved them unconditionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Shri Naidu urged people to cherish the values that Jesus Christ symbolized. \u201cLet us be more compassionate to those who are less fortunate than us and do our best to build a better world on the strong foundations of peace, tolerance and harmony\u201d, he said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind has greeted the nation on the eve of Christmas.\u00a0 In a message the President said, \u201cOn the joyous occasion of Christmas, I extend my greetings to all my fellow citizens in India and abroad, especially to my Christian brothers and sisters.\u00a0 We celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ [&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":[10309,10304,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318173"}],"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=318173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318174,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318173\/revisions\/318174"}],"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=318173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}