{"id":330194,"date":"2021-01-12T11:12:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-12T11:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330194"},"modified":"2021-01-12T11:12:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T11:12:43","slug":"farmers-protest-to-continue-until-three-laws-are-taken-back-rakesh-tikait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-protest-to-continue-until-three-laws-are-taken-back-rakesh-tikait\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers\u2019 protest to continue until three laws are taken back: Rakesh Tikait"},"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-330195 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rakesh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"619\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rakesh.jpg 619w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rakesh-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/rakesh-521x420.jpg 521w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 619px) 100vw, 619px\" \/>Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said the farmers will stay at the protest site until the three controversial farm laws are repealed. &#8220;We won&#8217;t return home until the bills are taken back,&#8221; he said .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Tikait said farmer leaders welcomed the Supreme Court decision to put on hold the implementation of the three farm laws but said they will not leave the protest site till the withdrawal of Centre\u2019s three laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He said farmers\u2019 protest will continue, regardless of the number of days it takes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Supreme Court earlier today put on hold the implementation of the three farm laws till further orders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The top court also said a committee would be formed to find a solution to the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, the Supreme Court said that it was extremely disappointed with the way the farmers\u2019 protest was handled 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;\">Several farmers have been protesting since November 26, at various border points of Delhi against agri laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday said the farmers will stay at the protest site until the three controversial farm laws are repealed. &#8220;We won&#8217;t return home until the bills are taken back,&#8221; he said . Tikait said farmer leaders welcomed the Supreme Court decision to put on hold the implementation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36,2009,2014],"tags":[13731,13847],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330194"}],"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=330194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330196,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330194\/revisions\/330196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}