{"id":45430,"date":"2017-03-05T17:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org\/?p=45430"},"modified":"2017-03-05T17:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:23:08","slug":"polls-rahul-akhilesh-offer-prayers-kashi-vishwanath-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=45430","title":{"rendered":"UP Polls: Rahul, Akhilesh offer prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 4 (<a class=\"highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/aninews.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANI<\/a>): Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Varanasi&#8217;s famous Kashi Vishwanath temple, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, <span class=\"highlights\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aninews.in\/keysearch\/keyword-search\/uttar-pradesh.html\">Uttar Pradesh<\/a><\/span> Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav offered their prayers at the temple.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\">Congress leader Raj Babbar was also present there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/838034010693636100\/video\/1\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/838034010693636100\/video\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\">Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi offered his prayers at Kashi Vishwanath temple and headed to Kaal Bhairav.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-error\" data-lang=\"en\" data-twitter-extracted-i1488716225619958886=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"et\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Watch?src=hash\">#Watch<\/a> Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing &#8216;aarti&#8217; at the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/noIUBx99zz\">pic.twitter.com\/noIUBx99zz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a class=\"highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/aninews.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANI<\/a> (@<a class=\"highlights\" href=\"http:\/\/aninews.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANI<\/a>_news) <a class=\"highlights\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/%3Ca%20href=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ANI<\/a>_news\/status\/837953033413734400&#8243;&gt;March 4, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"readability-styled\">Rahul Akhilesh Yadav earlier in the day held a road show in Varanasi on the sidelines of Prime Minister Modi&#8217;s visit.<\/p>\n<p>The Samajwadi Party-Congress road show began from &#8216;Kachehri chauraha&#8217; area and culminated at the &#8216;Girjaghar chauraha&#8217;.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati also held a rally at Jaunpur.<br \/>\nSecurity forces have been deployed in large numbers to stand guard over the high-profile rallies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh) [India], Mar. 4 (ANI): Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered prayers at Varanasi&#8217;s famous Kashi Vishwanath temple, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav offered their prayers at the temple. Congress leader Raj Babbar was also present there. https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/838034010693636100\/video\/1 Earlier in the day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}