{"id":329612,"date":"2020-12-17T14:32:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329612"},"modified":"2020-12-17T14:32:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T14:32:39","slug":"opportunistic-politics-bjp-mp-meenakashi-lekhi-after-delhi-cm-tears-copy-of-farm-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/opportunistic-politics-bjp-mp-meenakashi-lekhi-after-delhi-cm-tears-copy-of-farm-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Opportunistic politics\u2019: BJP MP Meenakashi Lekhi after Delhi CM tears copy of farm laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" 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-329614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/lekhi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/lekhi-1.jpg 610w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/lekhi-1-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/lekhi-1-513x420.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hours after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tore the copies of three farm laws in Assembly, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u2009MP\u2009Meenakashi Lekhi slammed Delhi CM, saying that the three farm laws were published in the Delhi Gazette on November 23, and that they were tearing up the copies of the act after notifying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Lekhi called Kejriwal the new chameleon who can just change colours without qualms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFraud being played on the citizens of this country. On 23rd November 2020 same laws have been notified by Delhi govt. Opportunist CM play acting for the cameras !\u201d Lekhi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;Arvind Kejriwal puts Chameleons to shame when it comes to changing colours within seconds. After notifying one of the farm laws in Delhi, he torn the copies of the Acts in Delhi Assembly today! He is the expert of U-turns and a champion of politics of bluff,&#8221; Lekhi added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Kejriwal today tore copies of the Centre\u2019s 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 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI 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 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"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 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"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 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of farmers have been protesting since November 26, demanding an immediate withdrawal of the farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hours after Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal tore the copies of three farm laws in Assembly, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)\u2009MP\u2009Meenakashi Lekhi slammed Delhi CM, saying that the three farm laws were published in the Delhi Gazette on November 23, and that they were tearing up the copies of the act after notifying.\u00a0 Lekhi called Kejriwal the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[429],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329612"}],"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=329612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329615,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329612\/revisions\/329615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}