After farmers protest and ‘Dilli Chalo’ the Samyukt Kisan Morcha decided on carrying out Bharat Bandh on Feb 16. The protests were seen to be in Jamshedpur as well.
Members of Samkyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), All India United Trade Union Centre (AIUTUC), Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) came to the streets in Sakchi, Jamshedpur. The protest rallied towards the Sakchi roundabout with huge number of people along with them to go ahead.
Protestors were seen with flags of the groups and questions regarding the way government is trying to do bring new laws like MSP which will affect the farmers across the nation. While the farmers from Punjab and Haryana have started marching towards Delhi. Supporters of the movement have protested in Jamshedpur showing their anger and disbelief on the government of India.
Surjeet Singh, member of Azad Samaj Party was also present in the farmer protest held in Jamshedpur. He stated in his speech that if Arjun Munda will not take action then protesters will conduct a massive protest and demand justice from the government.
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INTUC Joint General Secretary of Jharkhand, Mahendra Mishra said, “The central government led by Narendra Modi, is working against the poor, labours, farmers and the youth and instead they are constantly helping out their capitalist friends.
Youth, labours and farmers are continuously protesting and for a past several months we have been protesting and then declared that on Feb 16 will be a bandh. You can see how farmers have reached the borders of Delhi and in attempts to stop them the police have been posted along with barricades, nail spikes have been setup along with other methods they are using to keep them away. The farmers are being treated badly and are being subjected to physical harm.
The farmers are requesting but no one is listening to them, youth are jobless but no one is listening. Labour courts have been reduced to 4. So just like that apart from the capitalist and industrialists, the rest of the country is suffering and are in unrest and now people have come to the streets. This protest will keep growing and will be happening all over the country.”