{"id":57507,"date":"2019-03-21T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57507"},"modified":"2019-03-21T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T11:15:17","slug":"vice-president-delivers-1st-atal-behari-vajpayee-memorial-lecture-at-iimc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/vice-president-delivers-1st-atal-behari-vajpayee-memorial-lecture-at-iimc\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President delivers 1st Atal Behari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture at IIMC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vice President M Venkaih Naidu said that Media has an important role in promoting participatory democracy through enhanced voter turn out which in turn broad bases the foundation of democratic governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delivering first Atal Behari Vajpayee Memorial Lecture at Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said that Free media is the Cornerstone of Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">India, being the world&#8217;s largest democracy, the role of media becomes all the more important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Described as the fourth pillar of democracy, media can actually be a force multiplier to sustain democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Vice President added that Participatory Democracy is only possible through active participation of citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The function was also attended by Prasar Bharati Chairperson Dr A Suryaprakash, who underlined the importance of media&#8217;s crucial role in an election year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged the fourth estate to remain balanced and non-partisan, in keeping with the guidelines laid down by Prasar Bharati.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President M Venkaih Naidu said that Media has an important role in promoting participatory democracy through enhanced voter turn out which in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507","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=57507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57509,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507\/revisions\/57509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}