{"id":327254,"date":"2020-10-05T13:11:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327254"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:11:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T13:11:49","slug":"rahul-gandhi-hits-out-at-centre-for-destroying-procurement-system-at-kheti-bachao-yatra-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rahul-gandhi-hits-out-at-centre-for-destroying-procurement-system-at-kheti-bachao-yatra-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi hits out at Centre for destroying procurement system at &#8216;Kheti Bachao Yatra&#8217; in 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-hits-out-at-centre-for-destroying-procurement-system-at-kheti-bachao-yatra-in-punjab\/rahul-campaign\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327256\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327256 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"564\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-768x536.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-696x486.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign-602x420.jpg 602w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-campaign.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/a>Attacking the centre over the farm laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that his party will never back off from opposing these laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cEvery farmer will come on the road to fight against these laws and against your party. Congress party stands with all the farmers and will always support them,\u201d Rahul said while addressing a gathering at party&#8217;s &#8216;Kheti Bachao Yatra&#8217; in Sangrur Punjab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">&#8220;They passed the three black farm laws amid Covid-19. What was the haste to do it at this time? They did it because they thought the farmers won&#8217;t be able to do anything, but they don&#8217;t know the power of a farmer,&#8221; Rahul Gandhi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul later addressed the farmers of Bhawanigarh and criticised the Modi Government for destroying the existing procurement system instead of strengthening it. He along with Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee President Sunil Jakhar and other Congress leaders interacted with the farmers at Dana Mandi, Samana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Rahul Gandhi on Sunday kick-started the three-day \u2018Kheti Bachao Yatra\u2019 in Punjab to protest against the farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attacking the centre over the farm laws, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said that his party will never back off from opposing these laws. \u201cEvery farmer will come on the road to fight against these laws and against your party. Congress party stands with all the farmers and will always support them,\u201d Rahul said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":327256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327254"}],"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=327254"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327259,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327254\/revisions\/327259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}