{"id":80110,"date":"2018-08-12T14:54:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=80110"},"modified":"2018-08-12T14:54:37","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T21:54:37","slug":"pm-modi-is-committed-to-lankan-tamils-welfare-too-says-union-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/08\/12\/pm-modi-is-committed-to-lankan-tamils-welfare-too-says-union-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi is committed to Lankan Tamils\u2019 welfare too, says union minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>DECCAN CHRONICLE.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"strap\">The Central Minister said this was part of the Centre\u2019s housing project to build 14,000 houses in Jaffna.<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<div id=\"storyBody\">\n<p><strong>Chennai:<\/strong>\u00a0Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan has asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to the welfare of the Indian origin living in other countries including the Tamils in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>This loyalty could be seen in the dedication of houses built with help of Indian government for the Tamils in Sri Lanka, he said. Referring to handing over of 400 houses to the Tamils in the island nation by Mr. Modi, the Central Minister said this was part of the Centre\u2019s housing project to build 14,000 houses in Jaffna.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"coverimg\" title=\"Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images.deccanchronicle.com\/dc-Cover-pknovefv6a45uogmqckd57mf93-20180805000522.Medi.jpeg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Narendra Modi.\" data-adaptive-background=\"1\" data-big=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"storyimg-caption\"><i class=\"fa fa-camera\"><\/i>\u00a0Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, BJP state general secretary Vanathi Srinivasan has claimed that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was not the lone leader for whom proper security was not provided&#8221; when he visited the Rajaji Hall, here on Aug.8 to pay his last respects to DMK leader M. Karunanidhi.<\/p>\n<p>Not only Rahul Ganghi but also for others including Union Ministers, providing security has been a difficult task. I too had been there along with the Central Ministers. The police could have avoided that situation. After the Prime Minister left the venue, atleast for three hours the situation had gone out of control,\u201d she alleged and insisted that the police take responsibility\u201d for the system collapse leading to a stampede-like situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DECCAN CHRONICLE. The Central Minister said this was part of the Centre\u2019s housing project to build 14,000 houses in Jaffna. Chennai:\u00a0Union Minister of State for Finance and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan has asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is committed to the welfare of the Indian origin living in other countries including the Tamils in Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}