{"id":15724,"date":"2017-12-26T11:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=15724"},"modified":"2017-12-26T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T11:49:19","slug":"vajpayee-turns-93-wishes-pour-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vajpayee-turns-93-wishes-pour-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Vajpayee turns 93, wishes pour in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,<br \/>\nAs former premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee turned 93 today, greetings poured in for the veteran statesman, with President Ram Nath Kovind and Prime Minister Narendra Modi extending their wishes.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu went to meet Vajpayee at his residence here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBirthday wishes to our much-loved and respected former Prime Minister, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee #PresidentKovind,\u201d the official Twitter handle of the President of India read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisited Atal ji to convey birthday greetings to him. Spent time with his family as well,\u201d the Prime Minister wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Modi credited Vajpayee&#8217;s phenomenal and visionary leadership which &#8220;further raised our prestige at the world stage. I pray for his good health&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Naidu posted a poem in Hindi on Twitter by the former prime minister, who is keeping indifferent health and has not been seen in public for a long time now. The poem urged people to remain united and not to give up hope in tough times.<\/p>\n<p>BJP president Amit Shah and Home Minister Rajnath Singh also visited Vajapayee&#8217;s residence to greet him. &#8220;Visited Atal ji&#8217;s home to wish him on his birthday,&#8221; Shah said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti also wished the BJP veteran well on his birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, As former premier Atal Bihari Vajpayee turned 93 today, greetings poured in for the veteran statesman, with President Ram Nath Kovind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15726,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15724\/revisions\/15726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}