{"id":302302,"date":"2018-09-06T05:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302302"},"modified":"2018-09-06T05:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T05:25:28","slug":"bharat-bandh-nationwide-protest-against-sc-st-act-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bharat-bandh-nationwide-protest-against-sc-st-act-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat Bandh: Nationwide protest against SC\/ST Act Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_302303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-302303\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-302303\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh-300x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh-696x590.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh-496x420.jpg 496w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/09\/bharat-bandh.jpg 807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-302303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Social Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Bharat Bandh gained steam in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and several other places\u00a0on Thursday morning against the recent amendment of\u00a0SC\/ST Act.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bandh has been called by 35 organisations linked to the upper caste communities, who are protesting against the recent amendment to the\u00a0Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security has been beefed up in some areas and the prohibitory orders have been imposed under Section 144 in sensitive areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Schools will remain closed as a precautionary measure in various areas of Madhya Pradesh and Petrol pumps across the state will also remain closed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Protestors stopped trains in Bihar Darbhanga and Munger&#8217;s\u00a0Masudan stations and burnt effigies in UP and MP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many companies of the special armed force of police have been deployed in various districts. It may be recalled the large-scale violence on April 2 this year during the Bharat Bandh called by Dalit groups.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharat Bandh gained steam in Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Rajasthan and several other places\u00a0on Thursday morning against the recent amendment of\u00a0SC\/ST Act.\u00a0 The bandh has been called by 35 organisations linked to the upper caste communities, who are protesting against the recent amendment to the\u00a0Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":302303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1130,842,955,1043,1478,4787,283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302304,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302302\/revisions\/302304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}