{"id":31692,"date":"2016-09-25T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31692"},"modified":"2016-09-25T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T06:28:00","slug":"maharashtra-chief-minister-congratulates-iskcon-on-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=31692","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Chief Minister congratulates ISKCON on 50th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-H5MLC_kYcww\/V-dt72tacjI\/AAAAAAAAfFk\/TEO-DGz0Nco\/s0\/2016-09-25_08-25-46.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-AjdO1v7IQzo\/V-dtIEzscFI\/AAAAAAAAfFc\/jnlw4OI6pzo\/s0\/2016-09-25_08-22-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Romapada Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chief Minister of Maharashtra in a message sent on 16th September, praised ISKCON for its &#8217;50 years of glorious achievements and service to humanity&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>He praised ISKCON for the dissemination of what he called the &#8216;glorious Vedic wisdom including the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam&#8217;. The Chief Minister also praised ISKCON&#8217;s philanthropic activities and youth preaching programmes.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his statement by saying: &#8220;It is commendable that ISKCON is working with a view to spreading divine Vedic knowledge among the youth.I congratulate ISKCON for taking these social welfare activities, and hope that society will hopefully implement these activities in future also.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Devendra Fadnavis is the 18th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the state whose capital Mumbai is the commercial capital of India.  A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, Fadnavis became the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra at 44.<\/p>\n<p>The full text of his message is attached below.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-mRBf5Ds36nQ\/V-dtAGJOsuI\/AAAAAAAAfFY\/9HVs3U6jD14\/s0\/2016-09-25_08-21-44.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-q5m8oiDL9b8\/V-duYMq7idI\/AAAAAAAAfFo\/44mHyUcviyg\/s0\/2016-09-25_08-27-43.jpg\" alt=\"Hare Krishna\"\/><strong>By Romapada Das<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> The Chief Minister of Maharashtra in a message sent on 16th September, praised ISKCON for its &#8217;50 years of glorious achievements and service to humanity&#8217;.  He praised ISKCON for the dissemination of what he called the &#8216;glorious Vedic wisdom including the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad Bhagavatam&#8217;. The Chief Minister also praised ISKCON&#8217;s philanthropic activities and youth preaching programmes.  He concluded his statement by saying: &#8220;It is commendable that ISKCON is working with a view to spreading divine Vedic knowledge among the youth.I congratulate ISKCON for taking these social welfare activities, and hope that society will hopefully implement these activities in future also.&#8221;  Devendra Fadnavis is the 18th and current Chief Minister of Maharashtra, the state whose capital Mumbai is the commercial capital of India.  A member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, Fadnavis became the second youngest Chief Minister of Maharashtra at 44.<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iskcon-50","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31694,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31692\/revisions\/31694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}