{"id":326823,"date":"2020-09-25T09:43:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326823"},"modified":"2020-09-25T09:43:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T09:43:19","slug":"new-agriculture-laws-will-enslave-farmers-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/new-agriculture-laws-will-enslave-farmers-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Agriculture Laws will enslave farmers: Rahul Gandhi"},"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-326069 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst.jpg 613w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/rahul-gst-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday sharpened his attack on the Centre over 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;\">Rahul compared the bills with the Centre&#8217;s GST system and said the contentious legislation would enslave farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He also expressed his support for a shutdown called by farmers&#8217; organisations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA flawed GST destroyed MSMEs. The new agriculture laws will enslave our Farmers. #ISupportBharatBandh,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also hit out at the government, saying the farm bills brought by it are a reminder of the &#8220;East India Company rule&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MSP (minimum support price) of the farmers will be taken away and they will be forced to become slaves of billionaires through contract farming, Priyanka Gandhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Neither will they get the price nor respect. A Farmer will become a labourer on his own land,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;We will not let this injustice happen,&#8221; she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several farmers\u2019 organisations, including from Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have called for a protest on Friday against the three bills, which were passed by both houses of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday sharpened his attack on the Centre over the Farm bills passed by both the Houses of Parliament. Rahul compared the bills with the Centre&#8217;s GST system and said the contentious legislation would enslave farmers. He also expressed his support for a shutdown called by farmers&#8217; organisations. \u201cA flawed GST [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[13451,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326823"}],"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=326823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326829,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326823\/revisions\/326829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}