Farm activists stop wheat train leaving pvt company’s silo
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Farm activists stop wheat train leaving pvt company’s silo
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Bathinda: Members of a farm outfit stopped a wheat-laden train leaving a silo belonging to a private group at the railway station of Dagru village in Moga district of Punjab – barely a kilometre from the silo -- at 9am on Friday. The activists sat on the railway tracks and did not allow the train to go further. Farm organisation BKU Krantikari state president Surjit Singh Phool told TOI, "There is no specific call to stop trains in Punjab, but it is standing call to disrupt business activities of corporates, especially the Ambani and Adani groups. Like freeing toll plazas of toll, disrupting activities at shopping malls, petrol pumps of Reliance, any movement at Adani group silo too comes under the call. Going by it the train was stopped." A BKU Krantikari activist said that they had informed the senior leadership of Sanyukta Kisan Morcha about their action and any further step will be taken on the direction of morcha’s senior leadership . Moga district officials reached railway station to get the rail blockade lifted but were unsuccessful. Thousands of farmers have been protesting since late November 2020 at Delhi's borders with Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the Centre’s new farm laws.
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The Times of India
Date
2021-02-27
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Chandigarh