{"id":133946,"date":"2024-09-13T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/sri-vijaya-puram-reflects-commitment-to-break-free-from-colonial-mindset-says-pm-on-port-blair-renaming\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T16:55:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T16:55:45","slug":"sri-vijaya-puram-reflects-commitment-to-break-free-from-colonial-mindset-says-pm-on-port-blair-renaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/13\/sri-vijaya-puram-reflects-commitment-to-break-free-from-colonial-mindset-says-pm-on-port-blair-renaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Vijaya Puram reflects commitment to break free from colonial mindset, says PM on Port Blair renaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-113331870,imgsize-1444542.cms?resize=1280,720&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sri Vijaya Puram reflects commitment to break free from colonial mindset, says PM on Port Blair renaming\" title=\"Sri Vijaya Puram reflects commitment to break free from colonial mindset, says PM on Port Blair renaming\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-brcount=\"6\">Prime Minister <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/narendra-modi\" rel=\"noopener\">Narendra Modi<\/a> on Friday hailed the <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/renaming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">renaming<\/a> of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/port-blair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Port Blair<\/a> as <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sri-vijaya-puram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sri Vijaya Puram<\/a> and said it reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to break free from the colonial mindset and celebrate our <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heritage<\/a>. Earlier, Union Home Minister <a data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/panache\/panache-people-101\/amit-shah\/profileshow\/85625854.cms\" rel=\"noopener\">Amit Shah<\/a> announced that Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of <a ref=\"dofollow\" data-ga-onclick=\"Inarticle articleshow link click#News#href\" href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/topic\/andaman-and-nicobar-islands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andaman and Nicobar Islands<\/a>, has been renamed Sri Vijaya Puram. <\/p>\n<p><!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=toppotime:1--> In a post on X, Modi said, &#8220;The name Sri Vijaya Puram honours the rich history and heroic people of Andaman and Nicobar islands. It also reflects our commitment to break free from the colonial mindset and celebrate our heritage,&#8221; the prime minister said. <\/p>\n<p> Shah earlier said the decision was taken to free the nation from colonial imprints as the Andaman and Nicobar Islands had an &#8220;unparalleled place&#8221; in the country&#8217;s freedom struggle and history. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Inspired by the vision of Prime Minister @narendramodi ji, to free the nation from the colonial imprints, today we have decided to rename Port Blair as &#8216;Sri Vijaya Puram&#8217;,&#8221; Shah said on X.<!--\/article_liveblog.cms?msid=105115637&pos=botpotime:15--><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/sri-vijaya-puram-reflects-commitment-to-break-free-from-colonial-mindset-says-pm-on-port-blair-renaming\/articleshow\/113331870.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the renaming of Port Blair as Sri Vijaya Puram and said it reflects the government&#8217;s commitment to break free from the colonial mindset and celebrate our heritage. Earlier, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced that Port Blair, the capital city of the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.etimg.com\/photo\/msid-113331870,imgsize-1444542.cms","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[602],"tags":[15438,62002,43474,4309,10323,4123,508,8601,30444,2910,40,74364,107411,5068,30805,1938,107409,31900,107410],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133948,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133946\/revisions\/133948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}