Punjab farmers squatted on rail tracks at a number of locations as a part of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s nationwide stir towards the Centre “reneging on its guarantees” made when the protest towards now-repealed farm legal guidelines was withdrawn final yr.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal) normal secretary Harinder Singh Lakhowal stated trains will probably be stopped from 11 am until 3 pm in Punjab. The four-hour protest is more likely to disrupt prepare motion within the state, inflicting inconvenience to passengers.
The protesters squatted on rail tracks at a number of locations, together with Jalandhar, Phillaur, Ferozepur and Bathinda.
The calls for of the farmers embrace a authorized assure for the minimal help value and justice within the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, Lakhowal stated. Eight folks, together with 4 farmers, had been killed in Lakhimpur Kheri in a violence that erupted when farmers had been protesting towards Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya’s go to to the world on October 3 final yr.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is an accused within the case. Farmers are demanding the sacking of Union Minister of State for House Ajay Mishra.
They’re additionally demanding the withdrawal of circumstances registered towards farmers throughout the anti-farm legal guidelines protest final yr, compensation to the households of farmers who misplaced their lives throughout the stir and rollback of the Agnipath recruitment scheme for the defence forces.
In regards to the panel on minimal help value fashioned by the Centre not too long ago, Lakhowal stated the federal government included within the committee officers and farmers who had been in favour of the now-repealed farm legal guidelines.
Bhartiya Kisan Union (Kadian) president Harmeet Singh Kadian, taking part within the protest at Phillaur railway station, stated the farmers had been holding the protest on the decision given by the SKM.
Farmers stated they had been compelled to squat on rail tracks because the Centre was not
“listening to their calls for”.
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