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1St October Punjab Akali Dal Has Announced That the Party Would Hold Date: 1st October Punjab Akali Dal has announced that the party would hold ‘Kisan March’ which would commence from all three religious ‘Takht Sahibs’ in Punjab and culminate at Mohali. Date: 28th September Delhi, Uttarakhand, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, and Punjab A tractor was set on fire near Delhi’s India Gate as a mark of protest by Punjab Youth Congress workers. A joint forum of several farmers, labourers and Dalit organisations observed a statewide bandh in Karnataka after the state government went ahead and tabled a bill to amend the APMC act.Several Congress andJanata Dal (Secular) (JD-S) workerswere detained by police as they protested against the Act. In Tamil Nadu, DMK and its allies hit the streets in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirappalli and Tirunelveli among other places across the state, protesting the three farm sector legislations, with chief M K Stalin saying his party was ready to challenge the Centre’s contentious move in court. In Uttarakhand, Congress held a protest march led by state unit president Pritam Singh towards the governor house.The State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarakhand limited (SIDCUL) and labour sanyukt morcha, a labour rights body in US Nagar district, also held a protest rally separately. In Uttar Pradesh, Congress and Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) workers staged protests in Lucknow. Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Ajay Kumar Lallu and other party workers were held by police during the protest, while members of the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party students’ wingwere stopped as they tried to march towards the chief minister's residence. In Gujarat, nearly 100 Congress workers, including state party president Amit Chavda, were detained in Gandhinagar after they staged a protest against the farm acts. Date: 26th September Odisha Members of different farmer bodies, Left parties, trade unions and Congress party staged demonstrations in Bhubaneshwar and other parts of the state on Friday. Date: 25th September Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Telangana All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (AIKSCC) announced ‘Bharat Bandh’which was observed by farmers in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. In Punjab women protesters under the banner of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) in Amritsar took out a protest march. The Delhi-Amritsar highway was blocked at several places by farmers from the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) and the Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI). In Haryana, farmers blocked the Rohtak-Jhajjar road. Protests were also held at several places, including Rewari and Yamunanagar. In Kerala, the Samyuktha Karshaka Samithi staged protests outside central government offices in the state. In Maharashtra, Swabhimani Shetkari Sanghatna (SSS) and CPI-led All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) held protests at different locations across the state.More than 10,000 peasants blocked the Mumbai-Baroda- Jaipur-DDelhi national highway at two places in Palghar district–Charoti in Dahanu tehsil and Boisar Naka in Palghar tehsil. In Telangana, AIKSCC, Unions and left parties organised protests in Hyderabad. Date: 24th September Punjab and Haryana Farmers in Punjab and Haryana observed ‘Rail Roko’ agitationacross the two states. It was scheduled to conclude on September 26 but was extended by three more days. Haryana Police used water cannons to stop Haryana Youth Congress (HYC) activists from heading toward Delhi to protest against the acts. Date: 23rd September Delhi and West Bengal Members of the Congress, Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M), Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) took out a silent protest march in the Parliament complex. In West Bengal, TMC staged a sit-in in Kolkata’s Mayo Road and Left parties brought out a rally in the city. Date: 21st September Rajasthan and Karnataka As a mark of protest around 247 Krishi Upaj Mandis in Rajasthan remained closed and the All India Kisan Sabha staged ‘Paraav’ outside the District Collectorateoffice in Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh. In Bengaluru, hundreds of farmers, labourers and members of Dalit organisations protested against the bills. Among those who participated in the protests were veteran freedom fighter HN Doreswamy, Swaraj Abhiyan chief Yogendra Yadav, writer Devanur Mahadeva, and former Justice HN Nagamohan. Date: 20th September Haryana Farmers in Haryana blocked roads and burned copies of the three farm acts as they were passed in the Rajya Sabha. Date: 16th September Punjab and Haryana Several protest rallies taken out by farmers of Punjab and Haryana across the state. Comments and quotes of farmers and organizers of the rallies can be found here. Date: 7th September Punjab A sit-in demonstration was observed by Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Samiti. .
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