{"id":326745,"date":"2020-09-23T09:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326745"},"modified":"2020-09-23T09:49:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T09:49:57","slug":"opposition-mps-stage-protest-march-in-parliament-over-farm-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/opposition-mps-stage-protest-march-in-parliament-over-farm-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition MPs stage protest march in Parliament 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-326755 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/protest-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/protest-2.jpg 740w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/protest-2-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/protest-2-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/protest-2-696x495.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/protest-2-591x420.jpg 591w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/>The Opposition parties on Wednesday took out a silent protest march at the Parliament premises over the farm bills passed recently. The MPs carried placards with messages like &#8216;Save Farmers, Save Workers, Save Democracy&#8217;, written on them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protesting MPs marched from the Mahatma Gandhi statue to the Ambedkar statue on the premises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAll MPs of the Congress and like-minded parties are marching from Gandhi statue to Ambedkar statue in Parliament protesting the anti-Farmers, anti-Workers Bills that have been rubberstamped in Parliament in the most undemocratic manner by the Modi government,\u201d Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, opposition leaders held a meeting in the chamber of Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad and decided to continue their 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;\">Several Opposition parties have protested the passage of the farm Bills in Parliament and have boycotted the proceedings of both Houses.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Opposition parties on Wednesday took out a silent protest march at the Parliament premises over the farm bills passed recently. The MPs carried placards with messages like &#8216;Save Farmers, Save Workers, Save Democracy&#8217;, written on them. The protesting MPs marched from the Mahatma Gandhi statue to the Ambedkar statue on the premises. \u201cAll MPs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[13451,11397,898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326745"}],"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=326745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326758,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326745\/revisions\/326758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}