In Bengaluru, several farm outfits have called for a day-long total shutdown today. This call is also supported by Congress, Janata Dal (Secular).
Bengaluru| With the President’s Assent to Farm Bills 2020, effectively making them into laws, the protests against Farm Laws have also intensified. Apart from Punjab and Haryana, farmers in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu have also taken to streets to protest.
WATCH: Farmers across #Karnataka protest against the recent amendments to Land Reforms, APMC, Electricity and Labour Acts by the state government. #KarnatakaBandh@IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/CQvCQJB55m
— Darshan Devaiah B P (@DarshanDevaiahB) September 28, 2020
Pro-Kannada organizations, who have extended their support to #KarnatakaBandh, hold protests in Majestic pic.twitter.com/wuINw40hem
— TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) September 28, 2020
Protests against farm, land and labour amendments go on without disrupting traffic at town hall of Bengaluru. Flags of various pro-kannada outfits, Dalit organisations, labour unions, farmer unions seen at protest as part of #KarnatakaBandh. Normal life largely unaffected. https://t.co/PclIiy50g0 pic.twitter.com/ObdKlRLmRf
— Anusha Ravi Sood (@anusharavi10) September 28, 2020
SDPI, Raith Sang, JD(S), Congress, Karnataka Rakshana Vedike, Dalit Sangarsh Samiti united at Ashoka Circle, form human chain in protest against Central and state governments#KarnatakaBandh pic.twitter.com/1BEVEEvPSq
— TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) September 28, 2020
#KarnatakaBandh: #Farmers protest #FarmBills. Some detained in #Bengaluru. Some requesting #bus drivers and #passengers to cooperate in #Belagavi. Some giving shops to remain shut in #Yadgiri. Some take out rally in #Bengaluru. Heavy security near #TamilNadu–#Karnataka border. pic.twitter.com/uz0HZL7eBb
— Pratiba Raman (@PratibaRaman) September 28, 2020
In Bengaluru, several farm outfits have called for a day-long total shutdown today. This call is also supported by Congress, Janata Dal (Secular) and other political outfits including Labour organisations, pro-Kannada groups. Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha and Hasiru Sene staged a protest outside the town hall in Bengaluru. Some farmers also sat on the roads in Hubli to stop the buses as bandh has been called.
Meanwhile, in Tamil Nadu DMK has been leading the farmers’ agitation. DMK Chief MK Stalin said that the party is leading protests in 3500 spots across the states.
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