{"id":326721,"date":"2020-09-22T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326721"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:28:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T05:58:44","slug":"shiromani-akali-dal-to-hold-chakka-jam-in-punjab-on-september-25-against-farm-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiromani-akali-dal-to-hold-chakka-jam-in-punjab-on-september-25-against-farm-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiromani Akali Dal to hold \u2018chakka jam\u2019 in Punjab on September 25 against farm Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/shiromani-akali-dal-to-hold-chakka-jam-in-punjab-on-september-25-against-farm-bills\/haryana-farmers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-326725\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-326725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers-768x616.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers-696x558.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers-524x420.jpg 524w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/haryana-farmers.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an NDA ally, on Tuesday announced road blockades across Punjab on September 25 to protest against the farm Bills passed by both the Houses of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SAD leaders will lead the protests across Punjab for three hours on September 25 in protest against farm bills, Senior Akali leader Daljit Singh Cheema said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal on Monday met President Ram Nath Kovind over farm bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal said, \u201cWe requested the President not to sign on \u2018anti-farmer\u2019 bills that have been forcefully passed in Rajya Sabha. We requested him to send back the bills to the Parliament.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On September 17, Union minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal 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;\">On Sunday, Rajya Sabha passed the Farmers\u2019 and Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020, amid protest and chaos by Opposition MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The bill was passed with a Voice vote in Rajya Sabha.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), an NDA ally, on Tuesday announced road blockades across Punjab on September 25 to protest against the farm Bills passed by both the Houses of Parliament. SAD leaders will lead the protests across Punjab for three hours on September 25 in protest against farm bills, Senior Akali leader Daljit Singh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":326725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[13451,279,3911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326721"}],"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\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355780,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326721\/revisions\/355780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}