{"id":326925,"date":"2020-09-28T09:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326925"},"modified":"2020-09-28T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:39:30","slug":"agriculture-laws-are-death-sentence-for-our-farmers-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/agriculture-laws-are-death-sentence-for-our-farmers-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture laws are death sentence for our farmers: Rahul Gandhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304235 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP.jpg 725w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-MP-628x420.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/>While farmers across the country are protesting against the new agricultural laws which were passed by the both Houses of Parliament and got the President\u2019s assent on Sunday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday called it a \u2018Death Sentence\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said that the farmers\u2019 voice has been crushed both inside and outside Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe agriculture laws are a death sentence to our farmers. Their voice is crushed in Parliament and outside. Here is proof that democracy in India is dead,\u201d Rahul Gandhi tweeted while referring to a news clipping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Sunday, President Ram Nath Kovind gave his assent to farm Bills passed by the both Houses of Parliament. With this, all three bills have now become Acts &#8211; The Farmers Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Act, 2020, The Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Service Act, 2020 and The Essential Commodities (Amendment) Act, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The opposition parties including the Congress have been demanding that the farm laws be withdrawn as they are not beneficial for farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">PM Modi on Sunday talked about the farm bills and said that the farmers of the country can sell whatever they are producing or cultivating to anyone, anywhere and can get a higher price according to their wish.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While farmers across the country are protesting against the new agricultural laws which were passed by the both Houses of Parliament and got the President\u2019s assent on Sunday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday called it a \u2018Death Sentence\u2019. He further said that the farmers\u2019 voice has been crushed both inside and outside Parliament. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[13493,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326925"}],"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=326925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326926,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326925\/revisions\/326926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}