{"id":330621,"date":"2021-01-29T02:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330621"},"modified":"2021-01-29T02:36:30","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T02:36:30","slug":"parliaments-budget-session-begins-today-opposition-parties-to-boycott-presidents-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/parliaments-budget-session-begins-today-opposition-parties-to-boycott-presidents-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament\u2019s Budget Session begins today; Opposition parties to boycott President\u2019s address"},"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-316853 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/parliament.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"833\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament.jpg 833w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/11\/parliament-696x299.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 833px) 100vw, 833px\" \/>President Ram Nath Kovind will address members of both Houses of Parliament on Friday ahead of the commencement of the 2021 Budget Session.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As many as 18 opposition parties including Shiromani Akali Dal, AAP and 16 led by Congress on Thursday said that they will boycott the President\u2019s address to both Houses of Parliament over farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">16 parties-Congress NCP, Shiv Sena, AITC, DMK, JKNC, SP, RJD, CPI(M),\u00a0 CPI, IUML, RSP, PDP, MDMK, Kerala Congress and AIUDF issued a joint statement announcing their decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress took to Twitter and announced the decision of boycotting the President&#8217;s address to Parliament in solidarity with the farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThe Congress party &amp; 15 other Opposition parties have decided to boycott the President&#8217;s address to Parliament on 29th Jan 2021 in solidarity with the farmers of India,\u201d the Party tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) senior leaders in a statement said, \u201cThe party will boycott President\u2019s address to Parliament to protest against the Centre which is bent on implementing the Agri Acts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBeing a party of farmers, Shiromani Akali Dal has always stood up for the farming community&#8217;s cause. Since the Centre is unmoved by the suffering of community agitating since months against Agri Acts, hence, we are boycotting President\u2019s address,\u201d said Akali leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind will address members of both Houses of Parliament on Friday ahead of the commencement of the 2021 Budget Session.\u00a0 As many as 18 opposition parties including Shiromani Akali Dal, AAP and 16 led by Congress on Thursday said that they will boycott the President\u2019s address to both Houses of Parliament over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330621"}],"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=330621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330623,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330621\/revisions\/330623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}