Farmers Movement Archive

Centre harming federal structure, say farmers in Amritsar

Amritsar, October 27The farmer organisations continued their demonstrations against the Centre’s contentious laws on Tuesday. The farmer activists are staging protests at Buttari and Gehri Mandi railway stations, besides outside the residence of BJP leader Shwait Malik, toll plazas and petrol pumps of Reliance group.The farmer leaders criticised the Union government for not operating goods trains in Punjab despite the agitators lifting their protest from rail tracks. They stated that the farmer unions had relaxed the ‘rail roko’ following an appeal from the Chief Minister. They stated that the Union government must take a sympathetic view of the problems faced by farming community.They stated that the Centre was trying to harm the federal structure of country with its policies aimed at centralisation of powers. They demanded from the Union government to address the farmers’ issues instead of terming their protest as political and unwarranted.While the agitators at Buttari had earlier shifted their protest from the railway tracks to the platforms, those sitting at tracks on Devidaspura too have shifted to nearby station at Gehri Mandi after change in weather conditions. As the farmers associations are staring at a long protest, the leaders stated that a protest at railway station is more sustainable instead of at rail tracks in open.

The Tribune

2020-10-28