{"id":330012,"date":"2021-01-04T04:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T04:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330012"},"modified":"2021-01-04T15:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T15:54:06","slug":"farmers-protest-centre-farmers-to-hold-talks-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-protest-centre-farmers-to-hold-talks-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 Protest: Centre, farmers to hold talks today"},"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-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\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government officials and farmer union leaders will meet today for the seventh round of talks to end the ongoing stalemate between them over the three farm laws passed by Parliament in September 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The protesting farmers have already made it clear that if their demands are not met, they will\u00a0 intensify their agitation by holding a tractor march on January 6 and also on January 26.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This will be the seventh meeting between the government and protesting farmers. The two sides have, so far, held six rounds of talks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A day ahead of crucial talks with the protesting farmers, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh for discussions.<\/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 mainly from Punjab and Haryana have been protesting since November 26, demanding the repeal of three farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government officials and farmer union leaders will meet today for the seventh round of talks to end the ongoing stalemate between them over the three farm laws passed by Parliament in September 2019. The protesting farmers have already made it clear that if their demands are not met, they will\u00a0 intensify their agitation by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":329735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,1801,2014],"tags":[13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330012"}],"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=330012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330020,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330012\/revisions\/330020"}],"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=330012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}