{"id":327216,"date":"2020-10-04T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T08:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327216"},"modified":"2020-10-04T08:30:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T08:30:23","slug":"rahul-gandhi-kick-starts-kheti-bachao-yatra-from-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-kick-starts-kheti-bachao-yatra-from-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi kick starts &#8216;Kheti Bachao Yatra&#8217; from Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-kick-starts-kheti-bachao-yatra-from-punjab\/rahul-punjab\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327220\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327220 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-696x380.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-1068x583.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab-770x420.jpg 770w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-punjab.jpg 1197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday kick-started the &#8216;Kheti Bachao Yatra&#8217; in Punjab to protest against the farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Along with Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and other senior Congress leaders of the state, Rahul started the three-day protest at Badni Kalan, Moga.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;#KhetiBachaoYatra has commenced from Badni Kalan under the leadership of Shri <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">@RahulGandhi Ji and Chief Minister <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">@capt_amarinder Singh Ji,&#8221; Punjab Congress said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;At Badni Kalan, Moga with @RahulGandhi\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">to start the 3-day protest, #KhetiBachaoYatra. We will put all our might to get the Anti-Farmer Laws repealed. I won&#8217;t let my Punjab farmers suffer because of such draconian laws,&#8221; Punjab CM said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Punjab has been witnessing state-wide protests against the recently passed farm laws by the Modi government, as more than 31 farmer organisations in Punjab are protesting against the new laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">From all over the state farmers are stopping the movement of traffic at roads and highways. Many trains were suspended as farmers sat on rail tracks to protest against the laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday kick-started the &#8216;Kheti Bachao Yatra&#8217; in Punjab to protest against the farm laws. Along with Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh and other senior Congress leaders of the state, Rahul started the three-day protest at Badni Kalan, Moga. &#8220;#KhetiBachaoYatra has commenced from Badni Kalan under the leadership of Shri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327220,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[13493,13549,279,579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327216"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327222,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327216\/revisions\/327222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}