NEW DELHI — Tens of thousands of farmers who stormed the historic Red Forton India’s Republic Day were again camped outside the capital Wednesdayafter the most volatile day of their two-month standoff left one protesterdead and more than 80 police officers injured.

The protests demanding the repeal of new agricultural laws have grown intoa rebellion that is rattling Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. OnTuesday, more than 10,000 tractors and thousands of more people on foot orhorseback tried to advance into the capital, shoving aside barricades andbuses blocking their path and at times met by police using tear gas andwater cannons.

Their brief takeover of the 17th-century fort, which was the palace ofMughal emperors, played out live Indian news channels. The farmers, somecarrying ceremonial swords, ropes and sticks, overwhelmed police. In aprofoundly symbolic challenge to Modi’s Hindu-nationalist government, theprotesters who stormed Red Fort hoisted a Sikh religious flag.

“The situation is normal now. The protesters have left the streets of thecapital,″ New Delhi police officer Anto Alphonse said Wednesday morning.

Most New Delhi roads were reopened to vehicles by midnight Tuesday, hoursafter the protest organizer, Samyukt Kisan Morcha, or United Farmers’Front, called off the tractor march and accused two outside groups ofsabotage by infiltrating their otherwise peaceful movement.

“Even if it was a sabotage, we can’t escape responsibility,” said YogendraYadav, a protest leader.

He didn’t say whether the protesters will go ahead with another marchplanned for Feb. 1 when the Modi government is scheduled to present theannual budget in Parliament.

Yadav said frustration had built up among the protesting farmers and “howdo you control it if the government is not serious about what they havebeen demanding for two months.”