India / Farmers protest bare-chested in Amritsar against farm bills

A group of farmers associated with Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC), sitting on railway tracks in Amritsar's Devidaspura, went shirtless in protest against three farm bills passed by the Parliament. The bare-chested protesters shouted slogans against the BJP government. The committee had announced on Friday that it will extend the 'rail roko' agitation from September 26 till September 29.

Vikrant Shekhawat : Sep 26, 2020, 03:21 PM
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the bare-chested protesters shouted slogans against the BJP-led central government and demanded that the farm bills be withdrawn.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.