{"id":42756,"date":"2016-12-12T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=42756"},"modified":"2016-12-12T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T12:17:21","slug":"pvs-son-rajeshwar-rao-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/pvs-son-rajeshwar-rao-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"PVs son Rajeshwar Rao passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Veteran Congress leader , son of former Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao and former parliament member PV Rajeshwar Rao (70) died today due to illness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was elected as a member of parliament from Secunderabad. PV Rajeshwar nursed political ambitions. At one point, though, he wanted to become a playback singer and even sang light music on local TV but was quick to realise that his voice would not get him very far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His big break in politics came when he took over as general secretary of the Congress&#8217; Andhra Pradesh unit in 1991, when Narasimha Rao became prime minister. Rajeshwar began to wield considerable influence in ticket distribution and even now virtually runs the state Congress unit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Apart from running his father&#8217;s campaign in Nandyal during the Lok Sabha elections, he supervised the periodic yagnas in Madras to ward off evil influences threatening his father&#8217;s tenure as prime minister. He contested this election from Secunderabad and was elected to the Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Congress leader , son of former Prime Minister PV Narsimha Rao and former parliament member PV Rajeshwar Rao (70) died today due to illness. He was elected as a member of parliament from Secunderabad. PV Rajeshwar nursed political ambitions. At one point, though, he wanted to become a playback singer and even sang light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[510,10101,20275,40,11141,8901,20276],"class_list":["post-42756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-india","tag-lok-sabha","tag-p-v-rajeshwar-rao","tag-parliament","tag-prime-minister","tag-pv-narsimha-rao","tag-secunderabad-constituency"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pvrajeswararao.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756","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=42756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}