Participants pledged to continue united struggles against what Samyukt Kisan Morcha described as the anti-farmer, anti-worker and pro-corporate policies of the BJP-led NDA government.
NEW DELHI — Farmers, agricultural labourers, rural workers and other working people staged large-scale protests across India on Friday in response to a call by the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM) to observe an All India Resistance Day.
According to the farmers’ umbrella body, pledge-taking programmes, demonstrations and public meetings were organised at village and district levels in several states, including Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tripura and West Bengal.
Participants pledged to continue united struggles against what SKM described as the anti-farmer, anti-worker and pro-corporate policies of the BJP-led NDA government. The protests opposed a range of legislations, including the Seeds Bill 2025, Electricity Bill 2025, VB-GRAMG Act 2025 and the four Labour Codes, which the organisation alleged threaten farmers’ livelihoods, food security, employment guarantees, workers’ rights and the federal structure.
SKM said the widespread and disciplined participation reflected growing unity and determination among working people across the country. It described the All India Resistance Day as a significant step towards building a sustained nationwide movement to secure a legal guarantee for minimum support price (MSP) with procurement, employment security, social justice and federal rights, and to press for the repeal of the contested laws.
The farmers’ body said it would intensify its agitation in coordination with central trade unions, agricultural workers’ unions and other democratic forces to challenge what it termed the Modi government’s “anti-people policies.”
