{"id":328990,"date":"2020-11-27T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=328990"},"modified":"2020-11-27T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:12:38","slug":"punjab-cm-welcomes-centres-decision-allowing-farmers-to-enter-national-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cm-welcomes-centres-decision-allowing-farmers-to-enter-national-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM welcomes Centre\u2019s decision allowing farmers to enter National Capital"},"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-306745 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"866\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh.jpg 866w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh-768x457.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh-696x414.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/amarinder-singhhh-706x420.jpg 706w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 866px) 100vw, 866px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday welcomed the Centre\u2019s decision allowing farmers to enter the national capital and hold peaceful agitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI welcome Centre\u2019s decision to allow farmers to enter Delhi to exercise their democratic right to protest. They should also now initiate immediate talks to address farmers&#8217; concerns on the #FarmLaws and resolve the simmering issue,\u201d Amarinder tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Farmers have been allowed to hold peaceful protests at the Nirankari Ground in Delhi, according to sources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier in the day, protesting farmers at Singhu border broke barricades as they clashed with Delhi Police which used tear gas shells to disperse them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Punjab chief minister slammed the Manohar Lal Khattar-led government in Haryana for its continued use of \u201cbrute force\u201d to stop farmers marching towards the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCentre has now allowed farmers to enter Delhi, yet the @mlkhattar govt. is resorting to brutal force to stop them from marching peacefully to the national capital? What&#8217;s the need for such harsh measures? This barbarism needs to stop right now @mlkhattar,\u201d Amarinder said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cImpressed by remarkable restraint shown by farmers in face of @mlkhattar govt&#8217;s and Haryana police&#8217;s brutality. Their exemplary behaviour shows that farmers are not interested in confrontation, they only want to be heard, which is their constitutional right,\u201d Amarinder added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday welcomed the Centre\u2019s decision allowing farmers to enter the national capital and hold peaceful agitation. \u201cI welcome Centre\u2019s decision to allow farmers to enter Delhi to exercise their democratic right to protest. They should also now initiate immediate talks to address farmers&#8217; concerns on the #FarmLaws and resolve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":306745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328990"}],"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=328990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328991,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328990\/revisions\/328991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}