{"id":328323,"date":"2020-11-04T08:56:51","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T08:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328323"},"modified":"2020-11-04T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T08:56:51","slug":"punjab-cm-leads-dharna-at-delhis-jantar-mantar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cm-leads-dharna-at-delhis-jantar-mantar\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM leads dharna at Delhi\u2019s Jantar Mantar"},"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-328331 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/amarinder-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/amarinder-4.jpg 583w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/11\/amarinder-4-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday staged relay dharna along with his Cabinet colleagues and legislators at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI have made it clear that the Centre&#8217;s attitude towards our farmers and undermining the State\u2019s rights is not correct. As Chief Minister, it is my duty to protect the rights of my State and my people,\u201d Amarinder said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister reached Jantar Mantar after paying respects to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAt Raj Ghat to pay homage to the Father of the Nation. His ideal of persistent struggle in the face of opposition is our guiding light. We will fight to uphold Punjab&#8217;s right to dignity and respect,\u201d Amarinder earlier tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MLAs&#8217; relay dharna, earlier scheduled to be held at Rajghat, was later shifted to Jantar Mantar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The chief minister on Tuesday announced that he will lead a relay dharna of MLAs in Delhi to highlight the state\u2019s power crisis and critical essential supplies situation amid the Centre\u2019s adamant refusal to allow movement of goods trains.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As the crisis triggered by the suspension of goods trains aggravated further in the state, resulting in complete shut-down of all power plants as well as curtailment of agricultural and vegetables supplies, the Chief Minister said he had decided to hold a symbolic relay dharna to bring the state\u2019s grim situation to the Centre\u2019s notice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday staged relay dharna along with his Cabinet colleagues and legislators at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. \u201cI have made it clear that the Centre&#8217;s attitude towards our farmers and undermining the State\u2019s rights is not correct. As Chief Minister, it is my duty to protect the rights of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":328331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328323"}],"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=328323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328332,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328323\/revisions\/328332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/328331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}