{"id":332185,"date":"2021-05-26T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332185"},"modified":"2021-05-26T08:15:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T13:45:04","slug":"farmers-observe-black-day-to-mark-six-months-of-protests-against-farm-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/farmers-observe-black-day-to-mark-six-months-of-protests-against-farm-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers observe \u2018Black Day\u2019 to mark six months of protests against farm laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332188\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/05\/2021_5img26_May_2021_PTI05_26_2021_000103B-1-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>Farmer unions are observing May 26 as \u2018Black Day\u2019 on the completion of six months of the ongoing farmers\u2019 protest against three farm laws brought by the central government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The farmers are observing the black day by raising black flags from their homes, vehicles, and other places as well as by wearing black turbans and black chunni.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Besides, There are marches being carried out,\u00a0 and effigies burnt in several cities and villages in Punjab and Haryana, and at Delhi&#8217;s borders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"> Farmers have been protesting since November 26 last year against the farm laws passed by the Centre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Union leaders said that farmers will observe the black day at the borders and will not enter the national capital. They urged the citizens across the nation to support the farmers by putting black flags at their homes and other possible places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Meanwhile, the Delhi Police has urged people not to hold gatherings and not to come out of their houses due to the ongoing coronavirus situation in the national capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmer unions are observing May 26 as \u2018Black Day\u2019 on the completion of six months of the ongoing farmers\u2019 protest against three farm laws brought by the central government. The farmers are observing the black day by raising black flags from their homes, vehicles, and other places as well as by wearing black turbans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1],"tags":[14268,14269,13731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332185"}],"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=332185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332191,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332185\/revisions\/332191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}