{"id":338996,"date":"2022-08-16T00:09:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:39:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=338996"},"modified":"2022-08-16T01:12:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T06:42:47","slug":"pm-modi-greets-ncc-cadets-at-red-fort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/pm-modi-greets-ncc-cadets-at-red-fort\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi greets NCC cadets at Red Fort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with NCC cadets dressed in traditional attire and seated in the geographical formation of the map of India in front of Red Fort&#8217;s ramparts.<\/p>\n<p>After his speech on the 75th anniversary of India&#8217;s independence, Modi walked in the &#8220;Gyan Path&#8221; enclosure. He waved at and greeted the cadets.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister encouraged the cadets from Punjab and Gujarat to perform their folk dances -Bhangra and Garba &#8212; as he cheered for them. He also shook hands with some cadets, striking brief interactions.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 792 NCC cadets (Army, Navy and Air Force) from different schools across the country took part in the festival of national fervour.<\/p>\n<p>The cadets were seated at Gyan Path&#8217; in front of the Red Fort&#8217;s ramparts in the geographical formation of the map of India. They were wearing clothes of the regions they were representing, symbolising India&#8217;s cultural diversity.<\/p>\n<p>The August 15 ceremony is particularly significant this year as it marks the 75th anniversary of the country&#8217;s independence, with the government launching a host of exercises to add to the verve around the celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday interacted with NCC cadets dressed in traditional attire and seated in the geographical formation of the map of India in front of Red Fort&#8217;s ramparts. After his speech on the 75th anniversary of India&#8217;s independence, Modi walked in the &#8220;Gyan Path&#8221; enclosure. He waved at and greeted the cadets. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":338997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338996"}],"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=338996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338998,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338996\/revisions\/338998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/338997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}