NEW YORK – Braving cold weather, hundreds of Sikhs staged a demonstrationon Thursday — the U.N. Human Rights Day — near the Indian Consulate Generalin New York to protest new agricultural laws in India that they fear willadversely affect Punjabi farmers.

They raised vociferous anti-Modi and pro-Khalistan slogans as they pledgedto continue their support to the protesting farmers in India.

Protesters then drove in a cavalcade of cars to the Indian ConsulateGeneral, honking horns, waving anti-India signs and flying yellow flags.

A strong posse of police ringed the Indian Consulate General as part of thestrict security measures. Reports of similar protest rallies have also comein from a number American cities.