{"id":329201,"date":"2020-12-03T09:10:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329201"},"modified":"2020-12-03T09:10:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:10:18","slug":"former-punjab-cm-parkash-singh-badal-returns-padam-vibhushan-award-to-protest-betrayal-of-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-punjab-cm-parkash-singh-badal-returns-padam-vibhushan-award-to-protest-betrayal-of-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal returns Padam Vibhushan award to protest betrayal of farmers"},"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=\" wp-image-329202 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/parkash-singh-badal-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"383\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/parkash-singh-badal-2.jpg 368w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/parkash-singh-badal-2-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/parkash-singh-badal-2-312x420.jpg 312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 383px) 100vw, 383px\" \/>Former Punjab Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Parkash Singh Badal returned his Padma Vibhushan to protest &#8220;the betrayal of the farmers by govt of India&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came months after the SAD quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the then farm bills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Meanwhile, farmers\u2019 representatives today began another round of discussions with the Centre. The last meeting between the two sides had failed to break the impasse on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh met Home Minister Amit Shah in a separate meeting and appealed to both Centre and farmers to quickly resolve deadlock over Farm Laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCM @capt_amarinder meets @HMOIndia @AmitShah, appeals to both Centre &amp; #farmers to quickly resolve deadlock over #FarmLaws as state\u2019s economy &amp; national security getting adversely impacted by prolonged stalemate,\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;\">Thousands of farmers have been protesting against the new farm laws. The agitation has now entered the eighth day.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Punjab Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Parkash Singh Badal returned his Padma Vibhushan to protest &#8220;the betrayal of the farmers by govt of India&#8221; This came months after the SAD quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) over the then farm bills. Meanwhile, farmers\u2019 representatives today began another round of discussions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[13731,2685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329201"}],"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=329201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329203,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329201\/revisions\/329203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}