{"id":326588,"date":"2020-09-17T14:57:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326588"},"modified":"2020-09-17T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:10:57","slug":"union-minister-harsimrat-kaur-badal-resigns-in-protest-over-farm-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/union-minister-harsimrat-kaur-badal-resigns-in-protest-over-farm-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal resigns in protest over farm Bills"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-326589 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/harsimrat-kaur-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/harsimrat-kaur-1.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/harsimrat-kaur-1-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/>Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday resigned from the Modi government in protest against the farm bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Informing about her decision, Harsimrat in a tweet said, &#8220;I have resigned from Union Cabinet in protest against anti-farmer ordinances and legislation. Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter &amp; sister.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) member and Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal will resign from the government to protest farm bills,&#8221; SAD Chief and MP Sukhbir Singh Badal earlier said in Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sukhbir Badal also opposed the bill in his tweet by saying, \u201c@Akali_Dal_opposes all the three agriculture #ordinances of the Central Government.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Modi government on Monday introduced &#8216;The Farmers&#8217; Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion And Facilitation) Bill 2020&#8242;, &#8216;The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill&#8217; 2020, and &#8216;The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bills have hugely upset the farmers of Punjab and Haryana, who have been holding protests against the Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Thursday resigned from the Modi government in protest against the farm bills. Informing about her decision, Harsimrat in a tweet said, &#8220;I have resigned from Union Cabinet in protest against anti-farmer ordinances and legislation. Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter &amp; sister.&#8221; \u201cShiromani Akali Dal (SAD) member [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[1908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326588"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326593,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326588\/revisions\/326593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}