{"id":29033,"date":"2016-10-30T07:05:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T07:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=29033"},"modified":"2016-10-30T07:05:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T07:05:30","slug":"prime-minister-modi-dedicates-diwali-jawans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/prime-minister-modi-dedicates-diwali-jawans\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Modi dedicates this Diwali to Jawans\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0shares his thoughts on Mann Ki Baat. This is the 25th edition of Modi&#8217;s monthly radio programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the last edition of the programme, the Prime Minister had invited people to share their ideas for this month&#8217;s Mann Ki Baat episode.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nHIGHLIGHTS:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1384413450\"><span class=\"aQJ\">October 31<\/span><\/span> marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel and death anniversary of Indira Gandhi.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas based on mantra of non-discrimination.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kartik Purnima celebrated as Prakash Parv\/ birthday of Guru Nanak Devji; his teachings are guiding principles for humanity.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Which is why we all need to learn that we all must unite, and work towards unity rather than allow divisiveness to spread.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">But on one Sardar&#8217;s birthday, history remembers how sikh people and &#8220;sardars&#8221; all over the country faced violence and pain.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Very few know that it was Sardar Patel who envisioned Amul.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29035\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/mann-ki-baat.jpg\" alt=\"mann-ki-baat\" width=\"647\" height=\"404\" \/><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel worked to bring everyone together, he worked for unity, fought for unity and brought unity amongst people.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We must all guard our country from divisive tendencies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Aadhar based Direct Transfer of Benefits has mitigated problem of middlemen and private money lender.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mission Indradhanush is a unique programme that targets children who are left out of immunization.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We have to forget about all our customs and traditions and treat a girl and a boy equally, and we are moving fast.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">We must come out of our orthodox thinking and remove disparity between sons and daughters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">PM refers to Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s talisman; says time demands that rising aspirations of poor are fulfilled.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">7-8 districts in Haryana already kerosene free; soon, the entire state expected to achieve the same.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I want to commend Haryana government for taking up mission to make the state kerosene free.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Supplying kerosene to houses that already have LPG and electricity, gives opportunity to middlemen to exploit the system.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Sikkim, now Himachal Pradesh is Open Defecation Free.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Haryana declared 7 districts Open Defecation Free.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">In Gujarat, over 150 municipalities and corporations have declared themselves Open Defecation Free.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Be it BSF, CRPF etc, our jawans are on duty and guarding us; that is why we are celebrating Diwali joyfully.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">#Sandesh2Soldiers was used so much by everyone and we were flooded with well wishes and love for jawans from citizens.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">People from all walks of life sent messages of love and encouragement for our jawans, just as they light candles for their well being.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">From last few months our jawans are sacrificing their lives, we should celebrate this Diwali in their name.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I also have to thank the citizens of the nation for their support and love for our security forces and jawans protecting us.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">I request parents and guardians that if their little kids are bursting crackers they should be monitored and accompanied.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Diwali is now not just celebrated in India, but all over the world. Diwali is a festival which is bringing people together.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">World leaders are celebrating Diwali and sharing their memories and pictures on different social media platforms.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Whole world is celebrating Diwali today, it is a festival where we celebrate light over darkness. Is that not something we should inculcate for our society and the living spaces?<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Everyone is talking about cleanliness and environment today. In fact, everyone cleans their homes vigorously for Diwali.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">All forms of darkness are to be fought with a &#8220;deep&#8221; of Diwali, we are eliminating all the darkness from inside us and the world around.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Festivals are fixed not just on the mood of the moon but also mood of the people.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our festivals are linked closely to the nature&#8230; the food, weather, everything about a festival is so symbiotic.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">My warmest wishes to everyone for the happy festival of Diwali<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister\u00a0Narendra Modi\u00a0shares his thoughts on Mann Ki Baat. This is the 25th edition of Modi&#8217;s monthly radio programme. During the last edition of the programme, the Prime Minister had invited people to share their ideas for this month&#8217;s Mann Ki Baat episode. HIGHLIGHTS: October 31 marks the birth anniversary of Sardar Patel and death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,2],"tags":[7910,1567,3258,913,11999,6625,11998],"class_list":["post-29033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-diwali","tag-jawans","tag-mann-ki-baat","tag-prime-minister-modi","tag-sabka-saath","tag-sabka-vikas","tag-sardar-patel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Modi-8.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}