{"id":441,"date":"2019-01-30T11:59:56","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T11:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/?p=441"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T10:21:59","slug":"chief-minister-naveen-patnaik-today-condoled-the-death-of-george-fernandes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/chief-minister-naveen-patnaik-today-condoled-the-death-of-george-fernandes\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today condoled the death of George Fernandes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BHUBANESWAR<\/strong>: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today condoled the death of former defence minister George Fernandes, saying it is a great loss for the country, politically as well as intellectually.<\/p>\n<p>The 88-year-old former union minister and socialist leader died in New Delhi yesterday, after suffering from a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pray for his soul to rest in peace and my condolences for his family and followers,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Jual Oram also expressed grief on the demise of Fernandes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deeply saddened by the passing away of former Defence Minister Shri George Fernandes. A veteran socialist leader, an Anti-Emergency crusader and a man of immense courage, his death leaves a big void in Indian Polity,&#8221; Pradhan, the Union Petroleum Minister, said in a Twitter post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My thoughts and prayers are with his family in this hour of grief,&#8221; he added. Union Tribal Affairs Minister Jual Oram said Fernandes was a simple and open-minded leader, who served the country and the poor with dedication.<br \/>\nOdisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Niranjan Patnaik, too, voiced grief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today condoled the death of former defence minister George Fernandes, saying it is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[251,250,252],"result":[],"election_2018":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-issues","tag-former-defence-minister-george-fernandes","tag-odisha-chief-minister-naveen-patnaik","tag-odisha-pradesh-congress-committee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"result","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/result?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"election_2018","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myvotemyindia.in\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/election_2018?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}