{"id":329817,"date":"2020-12-28T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329817"},"modified":"2020-12-28T12:06:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T12:06:26","slug":"government-invites-farmers-for-fresh-talks-on-december-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/government-invites-farmers-for-fresh-talks-on-december-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Government invites farmers for fresh talks on December 30"},"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-329258 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/farmers-protest-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmers-protest-3.jpg 599w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/12\/farmers-protest-3-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>The central government has called protesting farm union leaders for a meeting on December 30. The meeting will be held at 2 pm at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fresh round of talks invite has come to end the deadlock over the agriculture laws that has led massive protests at various border points of the national capital for over the last one month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier today, leaders of about 25 farmer organisations met and handed over to Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar a letter in support of new agriculture laws, passed in the month of September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Centre has held several rounds of talks with farmer unions over new laws but failed to break the deadlock.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Thousands of farmers have been\u00a0 protesting since November 26, demanding repeal of three farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The central government has called protesting farm union leaders for a meeting on December 30. The meeting will be held at 2 pm at Vigyan Bhawan in Delhi. The fresh round of talks invite has come to end the deadlock over the agriculture laws that has led massive protests at various border points of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[3381,13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329817"}],"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=329817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329818,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329817\/revisions\/329818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/329258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}