{"id":330636,"date":"2021-01-29T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330636"},"modified":"2021-01-29T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T11:07:21","slug":"police-lathicharge-fire-tear-gas-shells-after-locals-clash-with-farmers-at-singhu-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/police-lathicharge-fire-tear-gas-shells-after-locals-clash-with-farmers-at-singhu-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Police lathicharge, fire tear gas shells after locals clash with farmers at Singhu border\u00a0"},"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-330637 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/protest-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"517\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/protest-10.jpg 517w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/protest-10-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/>Clashes broke out on Friday between agitating farmers and a group of people claiming to be locals at the Singhu border as Delhi police resorted to lathi-charge and used tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A group of locals reached the Singhu border protest site and asked the farmers to vacate the site. Both sides also pelted stones at each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the violent clashes, Alipur SHO Pradeep Kumar was injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Earlier, Delhi CM and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal extended support to farmer leader Rakesh Tikait. &#8220;Your demands are valid. It is completely wrong to discredit the farmers&#8217; movement, call them traitor and lodge false cases against farmer leaders,\u201d 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;\">AAP tweeted, \u201cFarmers&#8217; Leader Rakesh Tikait thanks CM @ArvindKejriwal for standing in support of farmers and providing all help during the crisis.\u201d\u00a0<\/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 have been protesting at the Singhu border since November 26 last year demanding the repealing of three farm laws.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes broke out on Friday between agitating farmers and a group of people claiming to be locals at the Singhu border as Delhi police resorted to lathi-charge and used tear gas shells to disperse the crowd.\u00a0 A group of locals reached the Singhu border protest site and asked the farmers to vacate the site. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330636"}],"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=330636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330641,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330636\/revisions\/330641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}