{"id":326952,"date":"2020-09-29T10:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326952"},"modified":"2020-09-29T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T10:03:23","slug":"punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-meets-representatives-of-farmers-organisations-over-new-farm-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-meets-representatives-of-farmers-organisations-over-new-farm-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh meets representatives of farmers&#8217; organisations over new farm laws"},"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-326957 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3.jpg 715w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3-696x485.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/amarinder-3-603x420.jpg 603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 715px) 100vw, 715px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday met the representatives of various farmers&#8217; organisations and assured them of all possible help to fight against new farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cMet with representatives of various Farmer Organisations of Punjab. My Govt will fight till the very last to save our farmers &amp; their livelihoods. We are exploring all legal avenues against these Anti-Farmer Legislations and would not let our farmers be affected in any way,\u201d Amarinder tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the President\u2019s assent on Sunday to the three farm bills, the farmer\u2019s organisations have intensified and scaled up their agitation against the new laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister yesterday held a sit-in protest against the farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He had earlier said his government will see\u00a0if Punjab can amend state laws to protect farmers\u2019 interests.\u00a0<\/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 been protesting for the past few weeks against the three laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Tuesday met the representatives of various farmers&#8217; organisations and assured them of all possible help to fight against new farm laws. \u201cMet with representatives of various Farmer Organisations of Punjab. My Govt will fight till the very last to save our farmers &amp; their livelihoods. We are exploring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":326957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1507,13493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952"}],"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=326952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326958,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326952\/revisions\/326958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/326957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}