Farm sector payments: Farmers in Punjab plan to dam railway tracks for three days.
New Delhi:
As farmer unions in Punjab has began their three-day “Rail Roko” protest on Thursday in opposition to the three farm sector payments in Amritsar and Firozpur districts, others have given a name for a statewide “bandh” on September 25, and from October 1. In view of at the moment’s protests, the Firozpur Railway Division has cancelled 14 trains affecting the state’s connectivity with Mumbai and Nanded in Maharashtra, Kolkata and New Jalpaiguri in West Bengal, Jaynagar in Bihar, and Haridwar in Uttar Pradesh.
The growing requires protests amid the coronavirus pandemic in Punjab point out that although the payments could have been handed within the parliament, the farmers – who’re cautious that the payments will spell the top of the Minimum Support Price (MSP) system as soon as procurement begins exterior mandis – are in no temper to simply accept them.
Here are the reside updates on farmers’ protest:
As the protests in opposition to farm payments escalate, Ayodhya-Lucknow Highway has been blocked throughout at the moment’s protest.
Punjab: Farmers, beneath the aegis of Bharatiya Kisan Union and Revolutionary Marxist Party of India (RMPI), block Amritsar-Delhi National Highway close to Phillaur in Jalandhar, in protest in opposition to #FarmBills handed within the Parliament. pic.twitter.com/6zsXZ5VhnW
– ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has appealed to the farmers to strictly keep legislation and order, and cling to all COVID-19 security protocols, throughout at the moment’s Bandh in opposition to the Agriculture Bills: Punjab Chief Minister’s Office .
Punjab: Police personnel being deployed round Ladowal Toll Plaza in Ludhiana, within the wake of nationwide protest by farmers at the moment, over #FarmBills. SHO Ladowal says, “All prepartions made, additional forces deployed. Farmer leaders have assured us that protest will be peaceful.” pic.twitter.com/mf70umS576
– ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020
Punjab: Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee continues their ‘rail roko’ agitation in Amritsar, in protest in opposition to the Farm Bills.
Punjab: Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee continues their ‘rail roko’ agitation in Amritsar, in protest in opposition to the #FarmBills.
The Committee is holding the ‘rail roko’ agitation from September 24 to 26 in opposition to the Bills. pic.twitter.com/NFfSCcWuO5
– ANI (@ANI) September 25, 2020