{"id":321842,"date":"2020-04-03T04:26:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=321842"},"modified":"2020-04-03T04:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T04:26:14","slug":"light-candles-lamps-on-sunday-at-9-pm-to-mark-covid-19-fight-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/light-candles-lamps-on-sunday-at-9-pm-to-mark-covid-19-fight-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Light candles, lamps on Sunday at 9 pm to mark COVID-19 fight: PM Modi"},"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-321843 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"806\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1.jpg 806w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1-696x444.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/PM-modi-1-659x420.jpg 659w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people across India to switch off lights of their homes on April 5 at 9 pm for nine minutes and light up candles, lamps or mobile flashlights\u00a0to mark country\u2019s fight against the coronavirus outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said people should maintain social distancing and not form groups while lighting up lamps or candles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the country via a video message, Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated the people of India for their &#8220;unprecedented discipline&#8221; during the coronavirus lockdown.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe discipline and spirit of service you have displayed during this period is unprecedented\u201d, said Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Modi further said, \u201cthe manner in which you had expressed gratitude to all those fighting against the Coronavirus on Sunday (March 22), has today become an example for all countries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMany are replicating it now,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday urged people across India to switch off lights of their homes on April 5 at 9 pm for nine minutes and light up candles, lamps or mobile flashlights\u00a0to mark country\u2019s fight against the coronavirus outbreak. He said people should maintain social distancing and not form groups while lighting up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321843,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321842"}],"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=321842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321844,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321842\/revisions\/321844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}