{"id":340140,"date":"2022-10-26T04:33:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=340140"},"modified":"2022-10-26T04:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T10:03:15","slug":"vice-president-dhankhar-pays-obeisance-at-golden-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/vice-president-dhankhar-pays-obeisance-at-golden-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice-President Dhankhar pays obeisance at Golden Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday offered prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple here.<br \/>\nDhankhar, who also partook in the &#8216;langar&#8217; (community kitchen), was accorded a warm welcome by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami.<\/p>\n<p>Dhami had earlier told the media that the apex gurdwara body would also give a memorandum to the vice-president for the release of &#8216;Bandi Singhs&#8217; (Sikh prisoners).<\/p>\n<p>He had said this issue was the &#8220;most important for the community as Sikh prisoners had not been released even after they had completed their sentences&#8221;. Last month, the SGPC had sought time from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a meeting to discuss the issue of the release of Sikh prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Tight security arrangements have been put in place for Dhankhar&#8217;s day-long visit to Amritsar. He will also visit Jallianwalla Bagh, Durgiana Temple and Ram Tirath Temple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday offered prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple here. Dhankhar, who also partook in the &#8216;langar&#8217; (community kitchen), was accorded a warm welcome by Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) chief Harjinder Singh Dhami. Dhami had earlier told the media that the apex gurdwara body would also give a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":340141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15598,15599,15597,574],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340140"}],"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=340140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340142,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340140\/revisions\/340142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/340141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}