{"id":29614,"date":"2021-03-11T01:29:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/mps-hit-back-after-india-summons-envoy-over-farmers-protest-debate"},"modified":"2021-03-11T01:29:33","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:29:33","slug":"mps-hit-back-after-india-summons-envoy-over-farmers-protest-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29614","title":{"rendered":"MPs hit back after India summons envoy over farmers&#8217; protest debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner called in after India said debate represented \u2018gross interference\u2019 in its internal affairs<\/p>\n<p>British MPs have hit back after Narendra Modi\u2019s government summoned the British high commissioner to India to warn against the UK parliament staging debates on the mass protests by Indian farmers.<\/p>\n<p>The new UK high commissioner, Alex Ellis, was summoned on Tuesday by the foreign minister, Harsh Vardhan Shringla, after India concluded that MPs had staged an imbalanced debate that represented a \u201cgross interference\u201d in India\u2019s internal affairs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/10\/mps-hit-back-after-india-summons-envoy-over-farmers-protest-debate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High commissioner called in after India said debate represented \u2018gross interference\u2019 in its internal affairsBritish MPs have hit back after Narendra Modi\u2019s government summoned the British high commissioner to India to warn against the UK parliament sta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[737,319,62,4,80,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-foreign-policy","category-india","category-politics","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29615,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29614\/revisions\/29615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}