{"id":329734,"date":"2020-12-23T22:10:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329734"},"modified":"2020-12-23T22:10:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T22:10:34","slug":"come-up-with-concrete-proposal-not-meaningless-amendments-farmer-unions-to-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/come-up-with-concrete-proposal-not-meaningless-amendments-farmer-unions-to-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Come up with concrete proposal, not meaningless amendments: Farmer Unions to Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/come-up-with-concrete-proposal-not-meaningless-amendments-farmer-unions-to-centre\/farmer2-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-329735\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-329735 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/farmer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"747\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2.jpg 747w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-696x433.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmer2-675x420.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 747px) 100vw, 747px\" \/><\/a>Protesting farmer unions on Wednesday asked the central government to come up with a concrete proposal in writing and not to repeat the promise of amendments to the new farm laws that have been already rejected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Addressing a press conference at the Delhi-Singhu border, national president of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Mahasangh, Shiv Kumar Kakka said, &#8220;We have already told home minister Amit Shah that protesting farmers will not accept amendments.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Refering to the Centre&#8217;s proposal to the farmers\u2019 unions, in which it offered to hold a fresh round of talks at a date and time of the unions\u2019 choosing. Swaraj India chief Yogendra Yadav, who was present at the Singhu border told media that the government\u2019s new letter is an attempt to defame the farmers\u2019 association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Yadav further said that the protesting farmers\u2019 union are ready for talks but Centre should approach the farmers\u2019 with clear intentions and open mind.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">As the farmers\u2019 protest entered its 28th day, five rounds of talks have failed to break the deadlock. While the Centre has repeatedly said that the farm laws won\u2019t be scrapped and proposed amendments but the unions have been adamant on a total repeal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesting farmer unions on Wednesday asked the central government to come up with a concrete proposal in writing and not to repeat the promise of amendments to the new farm laws that have been already rejected. Addressing a press conference at the Delhi-Singhu border, national president of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Mahasangh, Shiv Kumar Kakka said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":329735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329734"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329737,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329734\/revisions\/329737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}