{"id":136105,"date":"2020-09-02T02:21:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=136105"},"modified":"2020-09-02T02:21:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T20:51:04","slug":"bjp-rgu-mourn-mukherjee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/09\/02\/bjp-rgu-mourn-mukherjee\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP, RGU mourn Mukherjee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 1:<\/strong> The state BJP on Tuesday paid tributes to former president Pranab Mukherjee, who breathed his last on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">State BJP leaders and workers on Tuesday assembled at the party&#8217;s office here and held a condolence meeting to mourn the passing away of Mukherjee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Pranab da was one of the most respected politicians of India. A quintessential person, he was loved by all, irrespective of party affiliation. In his death, we have lost a great statesman and ever-smiling leader,&#8221; said state BJP president Biyuram Wahge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Namsai MLA Zingnu Namchoom highlighted the biography of the former president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Condolence meetings were also conducted by the party&#8217;s district and mandal units across the state to mourn the demise of the former president.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) expressed profound grief at the passing away of Mukherjee and offered condolences to the bereaved family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 13th convocation of the university was presided over by Mukherjee on 30 November, 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During a condolence meeting on Tuesday, the RGU family observed two minutes&#8217; silence as a mark of respect to the departed soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">RGU VC Prof Saket Kushwaha threw light on the ideals and principles of Mukherjee, and urged everyone to emulate them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joint Registrar Dr David Pertin highlighted the biography of Mukherjee. Pro VC Prof A Mitra also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Sep 1: The state BJP on Tuesday paid tributes to former president Pranab Mukherjee, who breathed his last on Monday. State BJP leaders and workers on Tuesday assembled at the party&#8217;s office here and held a condolence meeting to mourn the passing away of Mukherjee. &#8220;Pranab da was one of the most respected politicians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-136105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}