{"id":347892,"date":"2024-02-28T04:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=347892"},"modified":"2024-02-29T04:34:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:04:34","slug":"kisan-congress-takes-out-rally-in-hyderabad-in-support-of-agitating-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/kisan-congress-takes-out-rally-in-hyderabad-in-support-of-agitating-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kisan Congress takes out rally in Hyderabad in support of agitating farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"650\" height=\"367\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Kisan-Congress-takes-out-rally-in-Hyderabad-in-support-of-agitating-farmers.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/Kisan-Congress-takes-out-rally-in-Hyderabad-in-support-of-agitating-farmers.jpg 650w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/Kisan-Congress-takes-out-rally-in-Hyderabad-in-support-of-agitating-farmers-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hyderabad : \u00a0The Kisan Congress Cell organised a rally in Hyderabad on Wednesday in support of the farmers protesting near Delhi to demand a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Telangana unit of Kisan Congress cell took out a rally from L.B. Stadium in the heart of the city to Indira Gandhi statue at Necklace Road on the banks of Hussain Sagar lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The participants, led by Kisan Congress national vice-president Kodanda Reddy, expressed solidarity with the farmers who started their &#8216;Delhi chalo&#8217; march from Punjab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 200 farmers&#8217; unions have undertaken the march to press the Centre to address their demands, including the enactment of a law guaranteeing MSP for crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protesters at the rally held in Hyderabad were carrying placards, demanding legal guarantee for MSP and withdrawal of all cases registered against farmers during the 2020-21 agitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also paid tributes to 750 farmers who laid down their lives during the earlier agitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kisan Congress president Avinash Reddy said farmers were worried over lack of legal guarantee for MSP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Instead of addressing the long pending demands of the farmers, the government at the Centre is creating hurdles in their march by erecting iron barricades, &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kisan Congress leader alleged that the Centre was following anti-farmers&#8217; policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the MSP policy of the Centre has many loopholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad : \u00a0The Kisan Congress Cell organised a rally in Hyderabad on Wednesday in support of the farmers protesting near Delhi to demand a legal guarantee for Minimum Support Price (MSP). The Telangana unit of Kisan Congress cell took out a rally from L.B. Stadium in the heart of the city to Indira Gandhi statue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":347893,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15567,17665,17982],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347892"}],"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=347892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347895,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347892\/revisions\/347895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/347893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}