thousands of farmers protest against government amid new agricultural laws in india

In India, thousands of farmers gathered in the states of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh to organized protests called Bharat Bandh against the government’s 3 new agricultural laws. On a highway in the city of Noida and on the Gurugram Highway in the state of Haryana, queues of vehicles formed for kilometers. Traffic came to a standstill as protesters staged sit-in on several highway and railroad tracks. A Punjabi farmer who participated in the protests died of a heart attack.