{"id":73216,"date":"2019-10-26T11:37:58","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=73216"},"modified":"2019-10-26T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T11:37:59","slug":"capt-amarinder-greets-people-on-diwali-bandi-chhor-diwas-vishwakarma-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/capt-amarinder-greets-people-on-diwali-bandi-chhor-diwas-vishwakarma-day\/","title":{"rendered":"CAPT AMARINDER GREETS PEOPLE ON DIWALI, BANDI CHHOR DIWAS, VISHWAKARMA DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>APPEALS FOR ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY CELEBRATION, CALL FOR \u2018NO\u2019 TO STUBBLE BURNING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh<br>\nPunjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has greeted people on the occasion of Diwali and Bandi Chhor Diwas, with an appeal to protect the environment through green celebration and total rejection of the harmful practice of stubble burning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his message, the Chief Minister called for a pollution-free celebration, exhorting farmers to say `no\u2019 to burning of the paddy straw, while urging people to refrain from bursting crackers. \u201cLet us, on this festive occasion, pledge ourselves to making the environment more livable for ourselves and our future generations,\u201d he appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Captain Amarinder urged people to celebrate the festival of lights in a traditional manner, with prayers and earthen diyas, in a spirit of harmony and amity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chief Minister has also extended warm greetings to the people, especially the Sikh Panth, on the historic &#8216;Bandi Chhor Diwas&#8217;, to mark the release of 52 Hindu Princes from the Gwalior fort by Sixth Guru Sri Hargobind Sahib ji during the Diwali festival in the year 1612.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also wished his best for Vishwakarma Day, hoping that Lord Vishwakarma\u2019s craftsmanship would continue to imbue one and all with the feeling of dignity of labour, and bring prosperity to the lives of the people.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPEALS FOR ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY CELEBRATION, CALL FOR \u2018NO\u2019 TO STUBBLE BURNING Chandigarh Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has greeted people on the occasion of Diwali and Bandi Chhor Diwas, with an appeal to protect the environment through green celebration and total rejection of the harmful practice of stubble burning. In his message, the Chief Minister [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216","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=73216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73218,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73216\/revisions\/73218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}