{"id":329965,"date":"2021-01-01T06:06:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=329965"},"modified":"2021-01-01T06:06:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-01T06:06:30","slug":"my-heart-with-farmers-fighting-unjust-forces-rahul-gandhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/my-heart-with-farmers-fighting-unjust-forces-rahul-gandhi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My heart with farmers fighting unjust forces\u2019: Rahul Gandhi"},"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-327793 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad.jpg 760w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-696x527.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/rahul-waynad-554x420.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday welcomed the New Year, saying his heart is with the farmers and labourers who are fighting \u2018unjust forces\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAs the New Year begins, we remember those who we lost and thank all those who protect and sacrifice for us. My heart is with the farmers and labourers fighting unjust forces with dignity and honour. Happy New Year to all,\u201d Rahul tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The former Congress President has been slamming the Central Government on several occasions on the issue of farmers and labourers.<\/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 24, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi along with other party leaders met President Ram Nath Kovind at Rashtrapati Bhavan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul said he told the President that these farm laws are anti-farmer and the country has seen that farmers have stood up against these laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">After the meeting, Rahul in his sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, \u201cthese farmers are not going to go back home until these farm laws are repealed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several farmers have been protesting since November 26, against the new farm laws brought by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There have been several rounds of talks between the government and farmers\u2019 representatives. These have remained inconclusive so far and another round of meeting between them will take place on January 4.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday welcomed the New Year, saying his heart is with the farmers and labourers who are fighting \u2018unjust forces\u2019. \u201cAs the New Year begins, we remember those who we lost and thank all those who protect and sacrifice for us. My heart is with the farmers and labourers fighting unjust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[579],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329965"}],"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=329965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329966,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329965\/revisions\/329966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}