{"id":329148,"date":"2020-12-01T06:31:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329148"},"modified":"2020-12-01T06:31:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T06:31:28","slug":"give-farmers-their-rights-dont-disrespect-them-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/give-farmers-their-rights-dont-disrespect-them-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Give farmers their rights, don\u2019t disrespect them: Rahul Gandhi"},"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-327895 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-1.jpg 686w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-1-595x420.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said farmers are protesting on the streets and a lie giving speeches on TV.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Farmers are protesting on the streets and a \u2018lie\u2019 giving speeches on television. We all are indebted to the farmers for their hard work. We can repay their debt by giving them justice, not by disrespecting or mistreating them by hitting them with lathis or tear-gas shells. Wake up, get down from the ego chair and think, and give the farmers their rights,&#8221; the former Congress President tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of farmers from several states have been protesting since last week against the 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;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said, \u201cNew agricultural reforms have given farmers new options &amp; new legal protection. Earlier, transactions outside the markets were illegal. Now a small farmer can take legal action. The farmers have now got new options and legal protection from fraud.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cConfusion is spread in society about what has not happened yet &amp; which will never happen. The same is happening in the case of agricultural reforms. These are the same people who have consistently tricked the farmers for decades,\u201d the Prime Minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said farmers are protesting on the streets and a lie giving speeches on TV. &#8220;Farmers are protesting on the streets and a \u2018lie\u2019 giving speeches on television. We all are indebted to the farmers for their hard work. We can repay their debt by giving them justice, not by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329148"}],"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=329148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329150,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329148\/revisions\/329150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}