{"id":25811,"date":"2018-04-17T02:37:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=25811"},"modified":"2018-04-17T02:37:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:07:58","slug":"longte-celebrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/04\/17\/longte-celebrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Longte celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Our culture is our identity: Pario<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>PALIN, Apr 16:<\/strong> &#8220;Our tradition is our culture and our culture is our identity; therefore we need to preserve our identity,&#8221; leader of opposition and Palin-Chambang MLA Takam Pario said in his address at the first-ever Longte festival celebration here in Kra Daadi district on Sunday.<br \/>\nExpressing concern over the rising crime graph in the state, Pario urged the people to fight crimes, and urged the youths to desist from indulging in criminal activities and instead &#8220;play a critical role in maintaining peace and tranquility in the state.&#8221;<br \/>\nCentral Longte Celebration Committee chairman Lokam Kani read out the festival&#8217;s mythology. Earlier, Longte used to be celebrated in a few pockets of Kurung Kumey district, but it is now celebrated across the state, he said.<br \/>\nAmong others, APEDA Deputy Director Bengia Tadap, Palin Longte Festival Celebration Committee chairman Byabang Gopo, vice chairman Byabang Roshan, and general secretary Heri Sakap addressed the gathering.<br \/>\nThe celebration included cultural, sports and literary activities. The dignitaries later distributed the prizes among the winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our culture is our identity: Pario PALIN, Apr 16: &#8220;Our tradition is our culture and our culture is our identity; therefore we need to preserve our identity,&#8221; leader of opposition and Palin-Chambang MLA Takam Pario said in his address at the first-ever Longte festival celebration here in Kra Daadi district on Sunday. Expressing concern over [&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-25811","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\/25811","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=25811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}