{"id":320412,"date":"2020-02-26T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=320412"},"modified":"2020-02-26T09:13:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T09:13:38","slug":"delhi-violence-pm-modi-appeals-for-peace-brotherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-violence-pm-modi-appeals-for-peace-brotherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi Violence: PM Modi appeals for peace, brotherhood"},"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-316566 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1016\" height=\"556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01-768x420.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01-696x381.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/Screenshot_20191111-005858__01-767x420.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1016px) 100vw, 1016px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed people in the national capital to maintain peace and brotherhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPeace and harmony are central to our ethos. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times,\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cIt is important that there is calm and normalcy is restored at the earliest,\u201d Modi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Prime Minister further said, \u201cHad an extensive review on the situation prevailing in various parts of Delhi. Police and other agencies are working on the ground to ensure peace and normalcy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Opposition, however attacked the government\u00a0for the loss of lives in\u2009Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress President Sonia Gandhi said, \u201cthe Central Government, especially the Home Minister, is responsible for the current situation in Delhi. Taking responsibility, the Home Minister should resign with immediate effect.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Chief Minister &amp; the Government of Delhi have also proved to be a complete failure in maintaining peace and are also responsible. The failure of both governments has made the country&#8217;s capital a victim of this tragedy,\u201d Sonia added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the Army should be called in as police is unable to control the situation despite all its efforts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said the situation has become \u201calarming\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed people in the national capital to maintain peace and brotherhood. \u201cPeace and harmony are central to our ethos. I appeal to my sisters and brothers of Delhi to maintain peace and brotherhood at all times,\u201d PM Modi tweeted. \u201cIt is important that there is calm and normalcy is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320412"}],"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=320412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320413,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320412\/revisions\/320413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}