{"id":120409,"date":"2023-01-09T11:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Thenews21.com\/?p=120409"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:42:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T06:12:05","slug":"varun-gandhi-says-sugar-mills-should-clear-farmers-dues-or-face-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/varun-gandhi-says-sugar-mills-should-clear-farmers-dues-or-face-protest","title":{"rendered":"Varun Gandhi says sugar mills should clear farmers&#8217; dues or face protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Twitter: @the_news_21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BJP MP Varun Gandhi has asked sugar mills to clear dues they owe to farmers or be ready to face protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a public function in Arsiaboj village in Baheri assembly segment, which falls under his parliamentary constituency of Pilibhit, Gandhi said if sugar mills don&#8217;t start paying dues to farmers immediately, a protest meet by cane-growers will be organised at their gates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He named two sugar mills in particular. He also raised questions over the unemployment scenario in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;One crore government posts are lying vacant, the government should fill these posts. We are ready to help,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The farmers also told the MP that stray animals were harming their crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gandhi responded by saying the government and the administration should solve this problem soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said he was getting many complaints of police torture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter: @the_news_21 BJP MP Varun Gandhi has asked sugar mills to clear dues they owe to farmers or be ready to face protests. At a public function in Arsiaboj village in Baheri assembly segment, which falls under his parliamentary constituency of Pilibhit, Gandhi said if sugar mills don&#8217;t start paying dues to farmers immediately, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":25334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,13],"tags":[217,2214,13468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120410,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120409\/revisions\/120410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}