{"id":329609,"date":"2020-12-17T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329609"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:17:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:17:32","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-tears-copy-of-farm-laws-in-delhi-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/arvind-kejriwal-tears-copy-of-farm-laws-in-delhi-assembly\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Kejriwal tears copy of farm laws in Delhi Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329610 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/kejriwal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/kejriwal-1.jpg 521w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/kejriwal-1-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/kejriwal-1-472x420.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday tore copies of the Centre&#8217;s three new farm laws in the Delhi Legislative Assembly, saying that he could not betray the farmers protesting against three new laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;I am pained that I have to do this. I did not intend to, but I cannot betray the farmers of my country who have been sleeping on the streets in the cold when the temperature is just 2 degrees Celsius,\u201d Kejriwal said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal further said more than 20 farmers have died during 20 days of protest and asked the Centre when it will wake up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhat was the hurry to get the ordinance passed in Parliament during the COVID times ? It has happened for the first time that three bills were passed without voting in Rajya Sabha, even when several members were opposing the move,\u201d said Kejriwal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP\u2019s Amit Malviya in a tweet lashed out at Delhi CM and said, \u201cLast time Rahul Gandhi tore copy of a legislation passed by the Parliament and till date people of this country haven\u2019t put a halt on Congress party\u2019s electoral reverses. Now Kejriwal has joined the same league. This arrogance too will meet its fate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On December 7, Kejriwal visited Guru Teg Bahadur Memorial near Singhu border and inspected the arrangements made for the farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Addressing the media at the memorial, Kejriwal reiterated his support to the farmers and said, \u201cWe support all demands of the farmers. My party &amp; I have stood with them from the beginning of their protests. Our party, MLAs &amp; leaders have been serving farmers as \u2018sevadars\u2019 ever since. I haven\u2019t come here as CM but as a \u2018sevadar\u2019. Farmers are in trouble today, we should stand with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday tore copies of the Centre&#8217;s three new farm laws in the Delhi Legislative Assembly, saying that he could not betray the farmers protesting against three new laws. &#8220;I am pained that I have to do this. I did not intend to, but I cannot betray the farmers of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[306,13493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329609"}],"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=329609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329613,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329609\/revisions\/329613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}