{"id":167385,"date":"2021-07-25T02:15:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=167385"},"modified":"2021-07-25T02:15:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T20:45:52","slug":"shah-ne-cms-give-standing-ovation-to-chanu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/07\/25\/shah-ne-cms-give-standing-ovation-to-chanu\/","title":{"rendered":"Shah, NE CMs give standing ovation to Chanu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SHILLONG, 24 Jul:<\/strong> Union minister Amit Shah and the chief ministers of all eight northeastern states on Saturday gave a standing ovation to Mirabai Chanu, who took home India&#8217;s first Olympic medal in weightlifting at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, officials said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh broke the news during a meeting which was chaired by the union home minister, following which everyone in the meeting here gave a standing ovation with pride, they said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singh also announced a Rs 1 crore package, along with other perks an Olympian enjoys, besides reserving a special post for the 26-year-old Manipur woman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I broke the news to everyone in the meeting that<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mirabai has opened the medal tally for India in the Olympics with a silver medal. On hearing the news, Amit Shah ji was so delighted and reached out for the mic, saying it is a great pride for India,&#8221; Biren Singh said, and posted a video of his video conversation with the Olympian.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Everyone along with Amit Shah ji gave a standing ovation during the conference,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All eight CMs of the Northeast are attending a meeting being presided over by Shah in Meghalaya&#8217;s capital Shillong. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHILLONG, 24 Jul: Union minister Amit Shah and the chief ministers of all eight northeastern states on Saturday gave a standing ovation to Mirabai Chanu, who took home India&#8217;s first Olympic medal in weightlifting at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics, officials said. Manipur Chief Minister Biren Singh broke the news during a meeting which was chaired [&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-167385","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\/167385","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=167385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}