Farmers block Amritsar-Delhi Railway Track

Farmers block Amritsar-Delhi Railway Track

AMRITSAR : Farmers block Amritsar- Delhi Railway Track.After the six-day dharna outside the office of Amritsar deputy commissioner, hundreds of activists of the Kissan Sangharsh Committee (KSC) blocked the Amritsar-New Delhi rail route by sitting on the rail track meters away from the Amritsar railway station. Hundreds of farmers took the local administration by surprise, as after lifting the dharna from outside the DC office, they suddenly moved towards the Bhandari bridge and sat on the rail tracks under it.Due to this, the main Amritsar-New Delhi rail route has been blocked affecting the movement of various trains coming and going from the holy city. The farmers had been sitting on a dharna outside the office of the deputy commissioner for the past six days. They had also staged a dharna outside the residence of Punjab revenue minister Bikram Singh Majithia also.On Sunday afternoon at around 1:50 pm, the farmers immediately gathered on the rail tracks blocking the mainline.Raising slogans against the Punjab government for its anti-farmer policies, the KSC announced it as a ‘pakka dharna’ saying that they won’t lift it till their demands were met.
The farmers are demanding waiver of every kind of debt on farmers, compensation of Rs 10 lakh each to families of the farmers who have committed suicide under the pressure of debt, a government job to one of the members of the victim family, residential plots to labourers, electronic equipment to the applicants of new tubewell connections and also compensation for the loss borne by farmers during lathicarge on them in 2014.Due to the blockade of the rail traffic, no train entered or left the city. Even Shatabdi Express and Shan-e-Punjab trains, that come from New Delhi, were halted at the Manawala railway station, which is about 12 km from here.

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