{"id":328960,"date":"2020-11-26T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T07:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328960"},"modified":"2020-11-26T07:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T07:22:44","slug":"farmers-protest-absolutely-wrong-to-prevent-farmers-from-holding-peaceful-demonstrations-says-arvind-kejriwal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-protest-absolutely-wrong-to-prevent-farmers-from-holding-peaceful-demonstrations-says-arvind-kejriwal\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 Protest: Absolutely wrong to prevent farmers from holding peaceful demonstrations; says Arvind Kejriwal"},"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-321347 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-1-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/03\/kejriwal-1-521x420.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday showed his support to the farmers who are protesting against the Centre\u2019s new farm laws and said It is absolutely wrong that farmers are being prevented from holding peaceful protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;All the three farming bills of the central government are anti-farmer. Instead of withdrawing this bill, farmers are being prevented from holding peaceful demonstrations. Water cannons are being used on them. This is absolutely wrong. Peaceful protest is their constitutional right,&#8221; Kejriwal tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Haryana government sealed its borders with Punjab to stop farmers proceeding towards Delhi for their \u2018Delhi Chalo\u2019 march against Centre\u2019s new farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Haryana Police used water cannons and tear gas in order to stop them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The group of farmers allegedly tried to jump police barricades to enter Haryana. They even threw police barricades off the bridge into the Ghaggar river.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several protestors pelted stones at the Shambhu border (Punjab-Haryana border).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Security personnel used fire tear gas shells to disperse a crowd of farmers gathered at the Shambhu border.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday showed his support to the farmers who are protesting against the Centre\u2019s new farm laws and said It is absolutely wrong that farmers are being prevented from holding peaceful protests. &#8220;All the three farming bills of the central government are anti-farmer. Instead of withdrawing this bill, farmers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":321347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[306,13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328960"}],"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=328960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328961,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328960\/revisions\/328961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/321347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}