Bharat Bandh Today LIVE Updates: Congress lends support to nationwide farmers protest
RSS-affiliated farmers’ organizations like Bhartiya Kisan Sangh, Swadeshi Jagran Manch are also demanding amendment to the legislations but they won’t be taking part in the protest today.
Farmers, under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Union and Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), block the Amritsar-Delhi national highway near Phillaur in Jalandhar on Friday.
Punjab: Farmers, under the aegis of Bharatiya Kisan Union and Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), block Amritsar-Delhi National Highway near Phillaur in Jalandhar, in protest against #FarmBills passed in the Parliament. pic.twitter.com/6zsXZ5VhnW
— ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
A total of 31 farmers organisations have extended their support to the Bharat Bandh call. All India Farmers Union (AIFU), Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU), All India Kisan Mahasangh (AIKM), and All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC), farmers’ bodies from Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra are supporting the shutdown.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union and several other organisations are holding a nationwide demonstration and chakkajam against the farm reform bills. The bills were passed by the Parliament earlier this week.
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