Farmers protest bare-chested in Amritsar against farm bills

Amritsar: Protesters continued to block the Amritsar-Delhi railway line at Devidyal Pura village on the city's outskirts for the third consecutive day on Saturday as more farmers and their farmers joined in.

The protesters reached the protest site in tractor trailers, buses, four-wheelers and even on motorcycles.

Sitting on the rail track, the bare-chested protesters shouted slogans against the BJP-led central government and demanded that the farm bills be withdrawn.

Farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee have been protesting on the rail track near Devidaspura village in Amritsar since September 24.

After taking off their shirts, they shouted slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and their leaders lambasted his "anti-farmer" policies.

Sarwan Singh Pandher, KMSC general secretary, said the Prime Minister continued to flay the Opposition for allegedly misguiding farmers on the farm ordinances. "This exhibits Modi's frame of mind who still thinks the farmers are dependent on political parties for charting out their future course of action. Soon, all-women protests will be held and their core committee members will meet on September 28 to decide next course of agitation," he said.