Ranchi witnessed two back-to-back protests of different kind at the local Albert Ekka Chowk on Sunday.

In the first, a group of people responded to the call given by All India Kisan Sabha and different trade unions and beat plates and canisters to protest against Prime Minister’s Mann Ki Baat programme and to urge people not to listen to him.

In the other, a group of writers and artists gathered there to express their solidarity with the protesting farmers and demanding withdrawal of the farm laws.

A similar programme was also organised at Randhir Verma Chowk in Dhanbad to protest against Mann Ki Baat.

“Bahut hua mann ki baat, ab koro kam ki baat (enough of mann ki baat, talk about work),” was one of the slogans raised by the protesters at the first programme.

In the other, some drew sketches and did paintings at the programme organised by Progressive Writers Association, Janvadi Lekhak Sangh, Indian Peoples Theatre Association (IPTA), Jan Sanskriti Manch and some other like-minded organisations.

“We organised this programme to express our solidarity with the protesting farmers who are demanding scrapping of the farm laws,” said Lalit Aditya of IPTA.

“We wrote slogans and did paintings to support the agitating farmers and protest against the farm laws,” said M.Z. Khan of Janvadi Lekhak Sangh, adding that was how they could do it best.