{"id":39149,"date":"2021-11-20T02:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/indian-pm-narendra-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws-after-year-of-protests"},"modified":"2021-11-20T02:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T17:29:22","slug":"indian-pm-narendra-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws-after-year-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39149","title":{"rendered":"Indian PM Narendra Modi to repeal farm laws after year of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repeal of \u2018black laws\u2019 designed to modernise agricultural sector is huge victory for farmers<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/04\/india-at-least-eight-dead-after-farm-protesters-attack-ministers-convoy\">a year of protests <\/a>and unrest in India, in one of the most significant concessions made by his government.<\/p>\n<p>In a huge victory for India\u2019s farmers, who had fought hard for the repeal of what they called the \u201cblack laws\u201d, the prime minister announced in an address on Friday morning that \u201cwe have taken the laws back\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/19\/indian-pm-narendra-modi-to-repeal-farm-laws-after-year-of-protests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeal of \u2018black laws\u2019 designed to modernise agricultural sector is huge victory for farmersNarendra Modi has announced he will repeal three contentious farm laws that prompted a year of protests and unrest in India, in one of the most significant conc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"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":[62,433,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","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\/39149","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39150,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39149\/revisions\/39150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}