Photos: Farmer protests intensify after reform bills get President’s nod

A day after the agriculture reform bills got President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent to be drafted into laws, farmer protests further intensified throughout the country. Various farmers’ organizations called for a state bandh in Karnataka while on the other hand Punjab Youth Congress Workers set a tractor on fire while protesting at India Gate. In Punjab, Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh went on a sit-in against the bills on September 28. The bills have already caused the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) to exit from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), in resistance to the reform bills.

Updated on: Sep 29, 2020 11:34 AM IST

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Punjab Youth Congress workers raise slogans near a tractor set aflame in protest against farm laws at India Gate in New Delhi on September 28. Three agriculture reforms that were tabled and passed in the Parliament’s monsoon session got President Ram Nath Kovind’s assent to be drafted as laws on September 27. (HT Photo)

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Farmers continue to sit on a ‘Rail Roko’ protest against the new agriculture laws at Amritsar-Delhi rail link in village Devi Dass Pura in Amritsar on September 28. Two of the three reform bills were passed controversially in Rajya Sabha where opposition members in the house alleged the bills were passed “unconstitutionally.” Opposition as well as farmers’ protests have gained momentum since then, even as the reforms are set to be implemented. (Sameer Sehgal / HT Photo)

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Delhi police personnel detain a Delhi Congress activist during a Kisan-Mazdoor Nyay March from Rajghat to Raj Niwas in protest against agriculture bills in New Delhi on September 28. Congress Party launched a two-month agitation against the reform bills after the bills were passed in Rajya Sabha on September 20. (Vipin Kumar / HT Photo)

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A Congress party supporter is detained by police during a protest against new farm laws in Kolkata on September 28. West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC)Chief Mamata Banerjee also condemned the agriculture reforms and compared the destructive nature of the bills to the Bengal famine of 1943 which claimed more than two million lives. (Rupak De Chowdhuri / REUTERS)

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Protesters from various farmers’ rights organizations stage an anti-government demonstration in Bangalore on September 28. The All India Kisan Sabha and other organisations protested in front of Hemavathi statue while some held a bike rally. Some farmers’ organizations on the other hand offered flowers to shopkeepers in Hubli and requested them to support the statewide bandh, HT reported. (Manjunath Kiran / AFP)

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Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh along with Congress party members during a sit in over the farm laws at Khatkar Kalam in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar on September 28. In another show of resistance from Punjab, long-time ally Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) exited from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA). (PTI)

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Protesters raise slogans during a protest against new farm laws in Gandhinagar on September 28. Defending the laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on September 27 said in his radio address that the legislations would benefit farmers by giving them the freedom to choose where they want to sell their produce as well as consumers by taking middlemen out of agricultural trading. (Amit Dave / REUTERS)