{"id":306329,"date":"2018-11-30T07:36:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306329"},"modified":"2018-11-30T07:36:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T07:36:18","slug":"delhi-mega-farmer-rally-reaches-parliament-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-mega-farmer-rally-reaches-parliament-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi: Mega farmer rally reaches Parliament street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306331 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/farmers-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmers-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmers-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmers-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/farmers-1.jpg 422w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of farmers from across the country have gathered on day two of the protest to press for their demands, including remunerative prices for their produce and debt relief. In view of the large-scale agitation, security has been beefed up in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The march from central Delhi&#8217;s Ramlila Maidan started at 10 a.m. and reached the Parliament street at 11.30 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The farmers, who have been camping at the Ramlila ground in Delhi since Thursday, began their march to Parliament Street on Friday amid heavy police deployment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The farmers converged in the national capital on Thursday at the historic Ramlila ground from different corners of the country, including Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, to participate in the two-day Kisan March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many political leaders, including\u00a0Delhi\u00a0Chief Minister\u00a0Arvind Kejriwal\u00a0and Nationalist\u00a0Congress\u00a0Party chief\u00a0Sharad Pawar, have confirmed their participation in the rally,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The two-day \u2018Kisan Mukti March\u2019 has been organized by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many women farmers and students, mainly from the\u00a0Delhi\u00a0University, were seen in the rallies raising slogans for the cause of farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many daughters, whose\u00a0farmer\u00a0fathers committed suicide, hung pictures of their dead around the neck as they marched along with the rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 3000 police personnel have been deployed on the route of the march. As per the senior police officer, special arrangements have been made in Central and New Delhi police districts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of farmers from across the country have gathered on day two of the protest to press for their demands, including remunerative prices for their produce and debt relief. In view of the large-scale agitation, security has been beefed up in the area. The march from central Delhi&#8217;s Ramlila Maidan started at 10 a.m. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[9978,817,10010,10009],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306329"}],"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=306329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306332,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306329\/revisions\/306332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}