{"id":322099,"date":"2020-04-14T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322099"},"modified":"2020-04-14T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T08:57:10","slug":"sonia-gandhi-praises-frontline-workers-in-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sonia-gandhi-praises-frontline-workers-in-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Gandhi praises frontline workers in fight against COVID-19"},"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-315951 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sonia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sonia.jpg 547w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/sonia-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s address to the nation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi in her video message on Tuesday thanked people for adhering to the lockdown despite problems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She praised frontline workers in fight against the COVID-19 &#8211; doctors, sanitation workers, policemen. She urged people to stay inside their homes and follow lockdown and social distancing norms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She also reprimanded people for the attacks on doctors. However, the Congress president thanked people who are helping people in need.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThere is no greater &#8220;patriotism&#8221; than the persistence of warriors including doctors, scavengers, police in the Corona crisis. We will defeat Corona with a sense of unity, discipline and self-confidence,&#8221; Sonia Gandhi said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">COVID-19 cases in India has crossed 10000 mark while over 300 people have lost their lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u00a0will address the nation at 10 am\u00a0as the coronavirus lockdown ends today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s address to the nation, Congress President Sonia Gandhi in her video message on Tuesday thanked people for adhering to the lockdown despite problems. She praised frontline workers in fight against the COVID-19 &#8211; doctors, sanitation workers, policemen. She urged people to stay inside their homes and follow lockdown and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":315951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[1701],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322099"}],"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=322099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322103,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322099\/revisions\/322103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/315951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}