{"id":329189,"date":"2020-12-02T14:55:23","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329189"},"modified":"2020-12-02T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T14:55:23","slug":"call-special-parliament-session-to-repeal-farm-laws-farmers-tell-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/call-special-parliament-session-to-repeal-farm-laws-farmers-tell-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Call special Parliament session to repeal farm laws: Farmers tell govt"},"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-329190 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/farmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"651\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmers.jpg 651w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmers-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/>Protesting farmers on Wednesday demanded the repeal of new farm laws and rejected the government\u2019s offer to set up a committee to look into the issues raised by them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They said they will intensify their stir if their demands are not met.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Farmer leader Darshan Pal said that the farmers will continue their agitation till the three farm laws are repealed. &#8220;The Centre should call a special session of Parliament to repeal the three farm laws,&#8221; Singh said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar and railway minister Piyush Goyal met home minister Amit Shah today on ways to dispel concerns over the new farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi Traffic Police in a tweet informed that the Kalindi Kunj border that was closed due to farmers&#8217; agitation has been opened now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal today hit out at Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh over the ongoing farmers&#8217; agitation. In a live video address Kejriwal said Punjab CM should not do dirty politics over farmers&#8217; issues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Chief Minister\u00a0Captain Amarinder Singh also lashed out at Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for stooping to shamelessly low level of politics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cYou\u2019re a sneaky little fellow with dirty low level thinking &amp; politicking. Instead of meekly notifying central laws why didn\u2019t you even try to oppose them? Why didn\u2019t you pass Bills in Delhi assembly like we did in Punjab?\u2019 @capt_amarinder in scathing counter to @ArvindKejriwal,\u201d Raveen Thukral, Media Advisor to Punjab CM Tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u2018You seem more worried about angering Centre by rejecting their request for stadiums as jails for farmers instead of being concerned about the farmers. Your claims of caring for farmers are hogwash. They won\u2019t be taken in. So stop misleading\u2019: capt_amarinder to @ArvindKejriwal,\u201d Thukral added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, Narendra Singh Tomar, Piyush Goyal and Som Prakash interacted with the representatives of Farmers Organizations of Punjab in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Ministers again explained the benefits of Farm Reform Acts to the representatives of the Farmers\u2019 Unions. Various issues related to Farm Reform Acts were discussed at length and talks were held in a cordial atmosphere, according to the government statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">During the deliberations, the Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister proposed to constitute an expert committee to put forth the issues of farmers so as to resolve them with mutual consent but the representative of the Farmers Union suggested that all the representatives will attend further round of discussions with the Government to resolve the matter amicably.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting farmers on Wednesday demanded the repeal of new farm laws and rejected the government\u2019s offer to set up a committee to look into the issues raised by them. They said they will intensify their stir if their demands are not met. Farmer leader Darshan Pal said that the farmers will continue their agitation till [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329189"}],"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=329189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329191,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329189\/revisions\/329191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}