Chandigarh: Farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, pressuring the Punjab government over several key demands, are set to meet the state’s chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Thursday to keep their claims before the administration – which includes farm debt waiver, cancellation of FIRs lodged against farmers during the anti-farm law agitation and low compensation given for land acquired for highway projects.
Farmer unions, part of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), have over the past few days been putting up demonstrations across multiple protest sites in Punjab, demanding a complete waiver of farm loans and compensation to the kin of those who died during the anti-farm laws stir. On Monday and Tuesday, they blocked railway tracks at different places in Ferozepur, Tarn Taran, Amritsar, and Hoshiarpur, affecting the movement of as many as 156 trains.
According to Ferozepur division railway officials, 84 trains were cancelled, 47 short-terminated and 25 short-originated.
Meanwhile, a group of farmers also staged a sit-in on Wednesday outside the office of the deputy commissioner (DC) in Ludhiana.
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