{"id":6043,"date":"2026-05-09T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:03:36","slug":"watch-pm-modi-touches-feet-of-98-year-old-makhanlal-sarkar-who-is-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6043","title":{"rendered":"Watch: PM Modi touches feet of 98-year old Makhanlal Sarkar &#8211; who is he?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi honored 98-year-old BJP veteran Makhanlal Sarkar at the party&#8217;s first West Bengal government swearing-in. Sarkar, a key grassroots leader since the BJP&#8217;s inception, was recognized for his decades of service and association with the nationalist movement. His arrest in Kashmir in 1952 while with Syama Prasad Mukherjee highlights his early commitment.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi honored 98-year-old BJP veteran Makhanlal Sarkar at the party&#8217;s first West Bengal government swearing-in. Sarkar, a key grassroots leader since the BJP&#8217;s inception, was recognized for <a href=\"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/?p=6043\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/b2bexpress.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}