Farmers Movement Archive

Farmers force city stores of corporate house to shut down

Ludhiana: Farmers protesting against the Centre’s farm laws forced to shut down a corporate house’s jewellery shop near Fountain Chowk, four of its stores at a mall near Old Session Court Chowk and its outlet in Haibowal on Tuesday.After reaching the outlets, the farmers requested the customers to leave the premises. Thereafter, they made the employees down the shutters of the stores.They said in the coming days, they would get all the outlets of this and another corporate house closed in the city. A farmer union has also been staging a sit-in outside a mall on Ludhiana-Ferozepur Road since Sunday. District president of Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU Ekta), Ugrahan, Gurpreet Singh Noorpur said, “We will close down the business outlets of the two corporate houses in the city within the next few days. We will not allow any of their stores to open until the Centre revokes the farm laws.”On Monday, too, the farmer union had forced closure of two outlets of one of the corporate houses in Dugri, Phase 1, and Shaheed Bhagat Singh (SBS) Nagar at Pakhowal Road. Some members of the farmer union are also deputed outside a store to ensure that the employees do not reopen it. On Sunday, the farmers had closed down six of its stores in a mall at Ludhiana-Ferozepur Road.

The Times of India

2020-11-11

Ludhiana