{"id":198977,"date":"2022-08-28T00:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=198977"},"modified":"2022-08-28T00:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T18:41:35","slug":"khadi-was-ignored-after-independence-can-become-inspiration-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/08\/28\/khadi-was-ignored-after-independence-can-become-inspiration-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Khadi was ignored after Independence, can become inspiration: PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ahmedabad, 27 Aug (PTI): Khadi was ignored after Independence but now it can become a source of inspiration for &#8216;Atmanirbhar Bharat&#8217;, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was speaking during a &#8216;Khadi Utsav&#8217; at the Sabarmati riverfront.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khadi (homespun) was ignored after Independence due to which weavers in the country suffered, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a thread of khadi became inspiration for freedom struggle, it can also become source of inspiration for developed and Atmanirbhar Bharat, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As many as 7,500 women khadi artisans created a record on this occasion by spinning charkha (spinning wheel) at the same time and place, Modi noted in his speech.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Khadi Utsav (Khadi festival) is being organised as part of the Center&#8217;s &#8220;Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad, 27 Aug (PTI): Khadi was ignored after Independence but now it can become a source of inspiration for &#8216;Atmanirbhar Bharat&#8217;, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said here on Saturday. He was speaking during a &#8216;Khadi Utsav&#8217; at the Sabarmati riverfront. Khadi (homespun) was ignored after Independence due to which weavers in the country suffered, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-198977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198977","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=198977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}