Karnataka Bandh took place on the 25th of September for aggression over Farm bills. Mottoes against the BJP-ruled state and Union governments, for being against farmers and Dalits, rang in the air in Bengaluru’s Mysore Bank Circle. An otherwise busy junction, the traffic at Mysore Bank Circle was almost brought to a standstill on Friday morning as various farmers’ groups, along with Dalit and labor unions, united in protest against the contentious Farm Bills approved in the Parliament and the land reforms ordinances tabled in the Karnataka Assembly.
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Large vigilantes of police stopped the demonstrators from taking out a march, confining their protest to the junction itself. About three separate groups sat at the same spot for the same cause. These protests were a precursor to the statewide bandh called by the same groups in demand of a complete rollback of these controversial bills. The demonstrations on Friday were brought to a halt after more than an hour when the police started detaining peaceful protesters and took them away in buses.
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The state government has tabled the Karnataka Land reforms (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, Karnataka Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation and Development) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2020 and Industrial Disputes and certain other laws (Amendment) ordinance 2020. At the same time, the Union government on Sunday had enacted the Essential Commodities (Amendment) Bill, the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, 2020 and the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill, 2020 under controversial circumstances.
