{"id":329647,"date":"2020-12-19T09:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329647"},"modified":"2020-12-19T09:49:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:49:25","slug":"west-bengal-amit-shah-pays-floral-tributes-to-khudiram-bose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-amit-shah-pays-floral-tributes-to-khudiram-bose\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: Amit Shah pays floral tributes to Khudiram Bose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329648 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/amit-shah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/amit-shah.jpg 604w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/amit-shah-300x273.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/amit-shah-461x420.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday arrived in West Bengal on a two-day visit to take stock of the BJP\u2019s affairs and preparations in the state ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah paid floral tributes to Khudiram Bose at a village in Pashchim Midnapore and also met Bose&#8217;s family members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPaid floral tributes to Khudiram Bose, an epitome of valour and courage, who at a very young age sacrificed himself for the cause of India&#8217;s Independence. His life stands as an inspiration for us to do all that it takes to preserve our freedom and democracy,\u201d Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Shah paid tribute to Swami Vivekanand at Ramakrishna Ashram in Kolkata.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Had the profound fortune of spending time at the Ramakrishna Mission &amp; pay tributes to Swami Vivekananda ji. He was a great son of Mother India who devoted his life to National Resurgence. May his ideals continue to inspire us to transform India into a land of enlightened wisdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shah&#8217;s West Bengal visit came days after a convoy of BJP chief JP Nadda was attacked when he was on his way to Diamond Harbour area in West Bengal\u2019s South 24 Parganas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday arrived in West Bengal on a two-day visit to take stock of the BJP\u2019s affairs and preparations in the state ahead of the 2021 Assembly elections. Shah paid floral tributes to Khudiram Bose at a village in Pashchim Midnapore and also met Bose&#8217;s family members. \u201cPaid floral tributes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329648,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1194,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329647"}],"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=329647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329649,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329647\/revisions\/329649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}