New Delhi: Several rail routes were affected on Monday (October 18, 2021) as protesters staged a sit-in on railway tracks to support the six-hour ‘Rail Roko Andolan’ of the United Kisan Morcha. According to a railway official, four sections of Ferozepur division (Punjab) were blocked by protesters and the Ferozepur-Fazilka section in Firozpur city and the Firozpur-Ludhiana section in Moga’s Ajitwal were affected.
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As per reports, trains in Uttar Pradesh on the Bahraich-Mailani, Bahraich-Nanpara, Gorakhpur-Mailani and Lucknow-Mailani routes were also hit.
Earlier, in a statement, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of farmers’ unions spearheading the agitation against the three agrarian laws of the Centre, had said that the “protest will intensify till justice is secured” in the Lakhimpur Kheri case.
During the ‘Rail Roko’ protest, All train traffic will remain closed on Monday from 10 am to 4 pmSKM said.
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SKM has announced a nationwide Rail Roko ‘Andolan’ Press to demand the dismissal and arrest of Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, ‘So that justice can be got in Lakhimpur Kheri murder case’.
The SKM had said that this action should be taken peacefully, without causing any damage and without causing any damage to the railway property.
It is noteworthy that four of the eight people killed in the violence on October 3 were farmers, who were allegedly hit by a vehicle carrying BJP workers. Angry farmers allegedly thrashed some people in the vehicles to death. NS Two BJP workers are also among the other dead. and their drivers.
The farmers have claimed that Ajay Mishra’s son, Ashish Mishra, was in a vehicle, with Mishra and his son denying the allegation that they could produce evidence that he was at an event at the time.
Although Ashish Mishra Was arrested in this case on 9 October.
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