{"id":322068,"date":"2020-04-13T05:44:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T05:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322068"},"modified":"2020-04-13T05:45:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T05:45:17","slug":"pm-modi-pays-tributes-to-martyrs-of-jallianwala-bagh-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-pays-tributes-to-martyrs-of-jallianwala-bagh-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi pays tributes to martyrs of Jallianwala Bagh massacre"},"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-322069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/jalianwala-bagh-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"409\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/jalianwala-bagh-1.jpg 409w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/jalianwala-bagh-1-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/jalianwala-bagh-1-356x364.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid tributes to the martyrs of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, saying their valour will inspire Indians for years to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI bow to those martyrs who were killed mercilessly in Jallianwala Bagh on this day. We will never forget their courage and sacrifice. Their valour will inspire Indians for the years to come\u201d PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The\u00a0Jallianwala Bagh massacre, took place in 1919, when Acting Brigadier-General\u00a0Reginald Dyer\u00a0ordered troops of the\u00a0British Indian Army\u00a0to fire on a large group of unarmed Indian civilians\u00a0who had gathered at Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar to celebrate festival of Baisakhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 400 people including men and women were killed and over 1,000 people were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday paid tributes to the martyrs of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, saying their valour will inspire Indians for years to come. \u201cI bow to those martyrs who were killed mercilessly in Jallianwala Bagh on this day. We will never forget their courage and sacrifice. Their valour will inspire Indians for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":322069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[11269,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322068"}],"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=322068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322070,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322068\/revisions\/322070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}