On this occasion, farmers and working people collectively took the New Year’s Pledge to continue united struggles against the anti-farmer, anti-worker and pro-corporate policies of the BJP-led NDA government.
Groundxero | 16 January 2026
On the call of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), All India Resistance Day was observed across the country on 16 January 2026, with large-scale participation of farmers, agricultural workers, rural workers and the wider working people. The day marked an important step in building a sustained, united, pan-India movement to defend the rights, dignity and livelihoods of working people and to force the rollback of unjust legislations.
Village- and tehsil-level meetings, demonstrations and gatherings were organised across India to oppose the Seeds Bill 2025, Electricity Amendment Bill 2025, VB-GRAMG Act 2025, and the four Labour Codes. Together, these legislations threaten farmers’ livelihoods, workers’ rights, food security, employment guarantees and the federal rights of states.
Pledge-taking programmes, protest actions, meetings and demonstrations were successfully held in several states, including Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Telangana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Kerala, Tripura and West Bengal, with enthusiastic participation at village, block and district levels.
On this occasion, farmers and working people collectively took the New Year’s Pledge to continue united struggles against the anti-farmer, anti-worker and pro-corporate policies of the BJP-led NDA government. The programmes strongly opposed the Seeds Bill 2025, Electricity Bill 2025, VB-GRAMG Act 2025 and the four Labour Codes, which threaten livelihoods, food security, employment guarantees, workers’ rights and hollow out the principles of federalism.
The Pledge
We, the farmers, workers, agricultural and rural workers, along with the masses of the people, stand here on 16 January 2026, drawing strength from decades-long struggles, and firmly resolve to work united to resist all anti-farmer, anti-worker and anti-people laws and policies of the BJP-led NDA government until they are repealed. We pledge to strengthen the unity of the people and to fight for pro-people laws and policies that ensure basic rights and a life of dignity for all.
We pledge to continue our struggle until the Union Government:
- Repeals the Seeds Bill 2025, Electricity Bill 2025, VB-GRAMG Act 2025 and the four Labour Codes
- Enacts a law for MSP at C2+50% with guaranteed procurement for all crops
- Announces a comprehensive loan waiver to end peasant and daily worker suicides and rural indebtedness
- Fully implements the LARR Act, 2013
- Protects the federal rights of states
- Restores taxation powers of the states
- Allocates 60% of the divisible pool to the states
We, the working people of India, take this pledge in the New Year of 2026 to build consistent, united, pan-India struggles until victory.
SKM states that the widespread, disciplined participation across states reflects the growing unity and determination of the working people of India to defend their rights and livelihoods. All India Resistance Day marks an important milestone in strengthening a consistent, united, pan-India movement to force the repeal of these laws and to secure MSP with guaranteed procurement, employment security, social justice and federal rights.
The National Convention of Workers, held in New Delhi on 9 January 2026, extended the support of Central Trade Unions (CTUs) to SKM’s call for Resistance Day. Speakers emphasised that the convention took place at a critical juncture, when the Union government has notified the four Labour Codes and accompanying rules in an attempt to weaken trade unions and disarm the working-class movement in the face of intensified corporate onslaught. The CTUs called upon the entire working class and other sections of the toiling masses to gear up for the General Strike on 12 February 2026 by intensifying campaigns and strengthening organisational preparedness.
SKM reiterated that All India Resistance Day is part of a broader process of building a sustained, united, pan-India movement. SKM will continue to intensify struggles in coordination with central trade unions, agricultural workers’ unions and democratic sections across the country to push back the anti-people policies of the Modi government with confidence and resolve.
