{"id":344129,"date":"2023-06-12T06:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=344129"},"modified":"2023-06-12T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T11:35:36","slug":"haryana-farmers-hold-mahapanchayat-disrupt-traffic-on-delhi-chandigarh-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/haryana-farmers-hold-mahapanchayat-disrupt-traffic-on-delhi-chandigarh-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana farmers hold mahapanchayat, disrupt traffic on Delhi-Chandigarh highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"578\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-1024x578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-1024x578.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-696x393.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-1068x603.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest-744x420.jpg 744w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2023\/06\/Karnal-Mahapanchyat-protest.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kurukshetra: &nbsp;Traffic on the Delhi-Chandigarh National Highway was disrupted on Monday as farmers gathered there after holding a mahapanchayat in this district to press for minimum support price for sunflower seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from leaders of various khaps and Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, Olympic medal-winning wrestler Bajrang Punia, one of the grapplers who have been demanding action against outgoing Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, were present at the mahapanchayat. The &#8220;MSP Dilao, Kisan Bachao mahapanchayat&#8221;, called by Bharatiya Kisan Union (Charuni), was being held at a grain market in Pipli close to National Highway-44 which was blocked by farmers a few days ago demanding that the government procure sunflower seed at MSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurukshetra: &nbsp;Traffic on the Delhi-Chandigarh National Highway was disrupted on Monday as farmers gathered there after holding a mahapanchayat in this district to press for minimum support price for sunflower seed. Apart from leaders of various khaps and Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait, Olympic medal-winning wrestler Bajrang Punia, one of the grapplers who have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":344130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15293,36],"tags":[16838,15567,15999],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129"}],"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=344129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344132,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344129\/revisions\/344132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/344130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}