{"id":319541,"date":"2020-01-30T20:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=319541"},"modified":"2020-01-30T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T20:30:23","slug":"stay-away-from-those-encouraging-violence-vice-president-naidu-advises-the-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/stay-away-from-those-encouraging-violence-vice-president-naidu-advises-the-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay away from those encouraging violence, Vice President Naidu advises the youth"},"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-319542 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"793\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01.jpg 793w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-768x534.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-696x484.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/01\/Screenshot_20200131-015944__01-604x420.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 793px) 100vw, 793px\" \/>The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday appealed to the youth to stay away from those encouraging violence and said that those instigating violence were working against the interests of the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Interacting at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhawan with the members of NSS who have participated in the Republic Day Parade Camp in New Delhi, he said that some forces were trying to create tension and violence. Cautioning the youth to be careful against such forces, he said \u201cIf you destroy a public property, you are destroying your own future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Observing that violence has no place in Democracy, he said that dissent was acceptable but not disintegration. He underlined that in a democracy, it was important to discuss and debate but not disrupt. \u201cBallot is more powerful than bullet,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Asking the youth to develop a positive outlook and engage in constructive nation building activities, he said that the youth should be in the forefront of the fight against social evils like corruption, gender and caste discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cYoungsters like you must strive to build a New India which will be free of poverty, discrimination, inequalities, and hunger,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday appealed to the youth to stay away from those encouraging violence and said that those instigating violence were working against the interests of the nation. Interacting at Upa-Rashtrapati Bhawan with the members of NSS who have participated in the Republic Day Parade Camp in New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":319542,"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\/319541"}],"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=319541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319543,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319541\/revisions\/319543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/319542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}