{"id":12575,"date":"2018-06-06T16:40:04","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12575"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:40:04","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:40:04","slug":"no-iftar-party-at-rashtrapati-bhavan-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12575","title":{"rendered":"No Iftar party at Rashtrapati Bhavan this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>New Delhi, Jun 6 (DIN NEWS)<\/b> President Ram Nath Kovind will not host an Iftar party this year at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the President took over office, he decided there would be no religious celebrations or observances in a public building such as Rashtrapati Bhavan on taxpayer expense. This is in keeping with the principles of a secular state and applies to all religious occasions, irrespective of religion,&#8221; said Ashok Malik, Press Secretary to the president.<\/p>\n<p>He said the president of course wishes all fellow citizens on every major religious festivals.<\/p>\n<p>After a gap of a decade there will be no Iftar celebrations at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. Iftar parties have been traditionally hosted at the Rashtrapati Bhavan except during the tenure of A P J Abdul Kalam, who was the president from 2002-2007, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Iftar is the breaking of the &#8216;roza&#8217; (fast) that is observed by the Muslims during the month of Ramzan.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Jun 6 (DIN NEWS) President Ram Nath Kovind will not host an Iftar party this year at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. &#8220;After the President took over office, he decided there would be no religious celebrations or observances in a public building such as Rashtrapati Bhavan on taxpayer expense. This is in keeping with the principles of a secular state and applies to all religious occasions, irrespective of religion,&#8221; said Ashok Malik, Press Secretary to the president. He said the president of course wishes all fellow citizens on every major&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12577,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12575\/revisions\/12577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}