{"id":326604,"date":"2020-09-18T09:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326604"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:15:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T09:15:30","slug":"gurdaspur-mp-sunny-deol-supports-agricultural-ordinances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/gurdaspur-mp-sunny-deol-supports-agricultural-ordinances\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol supports agricultural ordinances"},"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-312170 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sunny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunny.jpg 450w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunny-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/sunny-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol on Friday came out in support of the agriculture ordinances which have been widely protested by the farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFarmers will be able to sell their agricultural produce at a place of their choice at a better price, which will increase the number of potential buyers,\u201d Deol tweeted.<\/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 \u2018The Farmers\u2019 Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion And Facilitation) Bill 2020\u2032, \u2018The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill\u2019 2020, and \u2018The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill 2020\u2019.<\/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<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Former Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu also came out strongly against the farm bills passed by the Lok Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">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-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Informing about her decision, Harsimrat yesterday in a tweet said, \u201cI have resigned from Union Cabinet in protest against anti-farmer ordinances and legislation. Proud to stand with farmers as their daughter &amp; sister.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gurdaspur MP Sunny Deol on Friday came out in support of the agriculture ordinances which have been widely protested by the farmers. \u201cFarmers will be able to sell their agricultural produce at a place of their choice at a better price, which will increase the number of potential buyers,\u201d Deol tweeted. The Modi government on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[13452,11284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326604"}],"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=326604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326605,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326604\/revisions\/326605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}