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The Hindu
The Hindu
National
Special Correspondent

Farm Bills: protests outside 250 Central govt. offices today

A group of farmers, under the banner of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee OBC (Other Backward Communities) department, take out a ‘tractor march’ from Kozhinjampara to Palakkad town on Thursday in protest against the farm Bills. (Source: K.K. Mustafah)

Protests will be held outside 250 Central government offices in the State on Friday as part of the nationwide stir against the controversial farm Bills.

In Thiruvananthapuram, senior Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and All India Kisan Sabha vice president S. Ramachandran Pillai will inaugurate the protest outside the Raj Bhavan, the Karshaka Samyuktha Samithi, which is spearheading the agitation in the State, said.

Samithi leaders Sathyan Mokeri and K.N. Balagopal urged farmer organisations and farmers to support the agitations.

The All India Kisan Sangarsh Coordination Committee has called the nationwide stir opposing the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill; the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill; and the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill introduced by the Centre.

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