{"id":319513,"date":"2020-01-30T06:38:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319513"},"modified":"2020-01-30T06:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T06:44:57","slug":"mahatma-gandhi-death-anniversary-president-kovind-pm-modi-leaders-pay-tribute-at-rajghat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mahatma-gandhi-death-anniversary-president-kovind-pm-modi-leaders-pay-tribute-at-rajghat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi death anniversary: President Kovind, PM Modi, other leaders pay tribute at\u00a0Rajghat"},"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-319514 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"769\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi.jpg 769w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi-768x421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi-696x382.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/kovind-modi-765x420.jpg 765w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 72nd death anniversary at Raj Ghat, New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;A tribute to the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary. The ideals of Bapu will continue to inspire us to build a strong, capable and prosperous New India,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, Congress\u00a0president\u00a0Sonia Gandhi, Defence Minister\u00a0Rajnath Singh were among those who paid homage to the Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vice President Venkaiah Naidu\u00a0in a tweet said, \u201cI join the nation in paying my humble tributes to the Father of the Nation, Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary today. Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s life and message of peace and non-violence are relevant for all times and find resonance in every part of the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid homage to Mahatma Gandhi on his 72nd death anniversary at Raj Ghat, New Delhi. &#8220;A tribute to the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary. The ideals of Bapu will continue to inspire us to build a strong, capable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[12526,316,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319513"}],"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=319513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319518,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319513\/revisions\/319518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}