The JMM on Saturday took out a huge tractor rally supporting the demands made by the farmers — to roll back the farm bills and to not leave farmers at the mercy of capitalists.

Party activists led by JMM legislator Ramdas Soren first assembled at the Gandhi Maidan in Mango where they participated at a meeting condemning the Centre for the new farm laws.

Around 1,000 activists who had come from different parts of the district later took part in the rally, which began around noon.

Some activists preferred to travel on tractors while others walked all the way from Gandhi Maidan to the district collectorate in Sakchi, a distance of around four kilometres.

On reaching the district collectorate the rally later transformed into a sit-in demonstration.

JMM's Jugsalai legislator Mangal Kalindi and Ichagarg Savita Mahto also participated in the dharna.

Later, a party delegation handed over a memorandum to the deputy commissioner of East Singhbhum Suraj Kumar, addressed to President Ram Nath Kovind

.JMM leader Ramdas Soren said the rally was a way to express solidarity with the protesting farmers, who have hit the street in a bid to compel the government to roll back - 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, that were passed by both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, last year.

The huge turnout at the rally resulted in the disruption of traffic on the busy Mango bridge and the two connecting roads - Old Purulia Road and Subernarekha Link Road, for about two hours from noon to 2 pm.