{"id":330075,"date":"2021-01-06T11:18:31","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330075"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:18:31","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:18:31","slug":"punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-urges-pm-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-cm-capt-amarinder-singh-urges-pm-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab CM Capt Amarinder Singh urges PM Modi to repeal farm laws\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p 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-330077 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/amarinder.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"726\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder.jpg 726w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder-696x478.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amarinder-611x420.jpg 611w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the farm laws which was passed in parliament in September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cPunjab CM @capt_amarinder urges PM @narendramodi to repeal #FarmLaws so that farmers sitting out in cold and rain can go back home. Calls upon him to withdraw laws &amp; bring new ones after talking to farmers as there&#8217;s nothing wrong in their demands,\u201d Raveen Thukral, Media Advisor to PM tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rejecting reports in a section of the media that Punjab had already implemented the Farm Laws, the Chief Minister said that Food Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu\u2019s statement was mischievously twisted by one newspaper, with others picking it up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said Punjab was the first state to have opposed the Centre\u2019s agri laws.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c.@capt_amarinder rejects as \u201cirresponsible &amp; mischievous\u201d reports \u00a0that Punjab has implemented \u00a0#FarmLaws, says \u00a0Bharat Bhushan Ashu\u2019s statement was mischievously twisted by one newspaper &amp; others picked it up. Points out Punjab was 1st state to oppose the laws,\u201d Thukral added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Indian farmers have been protesting since November 26 against the Centre\u2019s three farm laws. Farmer unions described the acts as \u2018anti-farmer laws\u2019, whereas the government maintained that these acts will ease the process of farmers selling their produce directly to big buyers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The seventh round of talks between protesting farmer leaders and the government was held at Vigyan Bhawan on Monday. However, the meeting remained inconclusive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The government remained firm on not repealing the contentious laws and wanted to discuss it pointwise, whereas protesting farmer leaders also stuck to their demand for the rollback of the laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to repeal the farm laws which was passed in parliament in September. \u201cPunjab CM @capt_amarinder urges PM @narendramodi to repeal #FarmLaws so that farmers sitting out in cold and rain can go back home. Calls upon him to withdraw laws &amp; bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,1801,2913,2014],"tags":[1507,279],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330075"}],"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=330075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330078,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330075\/revisions\/330078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}