{"id":60482,"date":"2021-10-31T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=60482"},"modified":"2022-09-12T16:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T10:39:45","slug":"national-unity-day-rashtriya-ekta-diwas-31-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/national-unity-day-rashtriya-ekta-diwas-31-october\/","title":{"rendered":"National Unity Day (Rashtriya Ekta Diwas): 31 October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Rashtriya Ekta Diwas<\/strong>&nbsp;is observed every year in India on&nbsp;<strong>October 31 since 2014.<\/strong> National Unity Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India&#8217;s first Home Minister, who played an important role in persuading many princely states to join the Union of India.&nbsp;<strong>2021<\/strong>&nbsp;marks the&nbsp;<strong>146th anniversary<\/strong>&nbsp;of the great leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He played an instrumental role in India\u2019s struggle for independence, and later during the integration of the country. Sardar Patel was the<strong>&nbsp;first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India<\/strong>. He is often referred to as the&nbsp;<strong>Father of the Indian Constitution<\/strong>&nbsp;and was a key member of the Constituent Assembly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Rashtriya Ekta Diwas&nbsp;is observed every year in India on&nbsp;October 31 since 2014. National Unity Day commemorates the birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India&#8217;s first Home Minister, who played an important role in persuading many princely states to join the Union of India.&nbsp;2021&nbsp;marks the&nbsp;146th anniversary&nbsp;of the great leader. He played an instrumental role in India\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":60483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[99,2235],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-60482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-days-events-current-affairs","tag-national-unity-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60484,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60482\/revisions\/60484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60482"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=60482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}