The Fact News Service
Ferozepur, April 25
It is day 7 of Rail Roko at Shambu station and the continuation of the farmer’s protest on the railway tracks affected nearly 112 trains.
As per the information, the railway has to cancel 44 trains, divert 64 trains, short-terminate 2 trains and short-originate 2 trains in the Ambala division of Northern Railways, which include important trains, causing inconvenience to the passengers and huge loss to the railway.
Swarn Singh Pandher, representative of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, Punjab said, our protest for the release of farmers held by Haryana police would continue and there will be huge gatherings on May 1 Labour Day.
The farmers are demanding the release of three fellow protesters – Navdeep Singh, Anish Khatkar and Gurkirat Singh, who were arrested in February and March by the Haryana police. They are also demanding that a special gurdwara be conducted by the state government to assess the crops suffered by farmers in hailstorms that lashed many parts of the state recently and compensation on this account. The farmers have also put forth the long pending demand to fix a minimum support price (MSP) for their crops and concessions, including the waiving of farm loans.
