{"id":325546,"date":"2020-08-20T04:27:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=325546"},"modified":"2020-08-20T04:27:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T04:27:20","slug":"pm-modi-pays-tribute-to-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-birth-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-pays-tribute-to-rajiv-gandhi-on-his-birth-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi pays tribute to Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary"},"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-301627 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi.jpg 663w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/Rajiv-gandhi-611x420.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;On his birth anniversary, tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Born on August 20, 1944, Rajiv Gandhi\u00a0took the charge of the Congress in 1984 following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. He assumed office of the Prime Minister in October 1984.\u00a0He served as the PM of India till December 2, 1989.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In May 1991, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suicide bomber during an election campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday paid tributes to former PM Rajiv Gandhi on his birth anniversary. &#8220;On his birth anniversary, tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Rajiv Gandhi Ji,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted. Born on August 20, 1944, Rajiv Gandhi\u00a0took the charge of the Congress in 1984 following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":301627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[316,2149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325546"}],"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=325546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325547,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325546\/revisions\/325547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}