Farmers Movement Archive

Power supply to 3 more Jio towers snapped

Jalandhar, December 28A month into the farmers’ protests, the angst continues to scald the corporate sector with the campaign to snap power from Jio towers in the district continuing briskly on Monday as well.With electricity supply of three new Jio towers being snapped in the district on Monday, the count has reached 13.While earlier in the month several members of the Sikh Talmel Committee also got several Reliance stores closed. A Reliance godown was also shut by farmers on Sunday.On Monday, groups of protesting farmers “amid heavy police presence” snapped power of at least three Jio towers in the Lamma Pind Chowk area.So far, power has been snapped of towers in Jandiala (three towers), Jamsher, Kangniwal, Samrai, Bajuha Kalan, Chakki, Qadianwal, Sansarpur apart from Monday’s closure at the Lamma Pind Chowk.Following this, members of the Bhartiya Kisan Union Rajewal (BKU Rajewal) met the Deputy Commissioner, Commissioner of Police, SSP and ADC in Jalandhar submitting memoradums to them regarding their demands. Unions have sought the withdrawal of FIRs against farm leaders amid the stir and have also declared that they will continue to boycott corporate networks and products in the coming days.Amarjot Singh, youth leader, BKU Rajewal, who had been staying on in Jalandhar to conduct a series of activities as per the calls given by farmers before heading back to Delhi, said, “We shall be identifying the remaining towers and get the power snapped from these. All farmer unions are snapping power supply of towers in their respective areas. The boycott of the products, as declared, shall continue until the government does not meet our demands. All activities conducted by us have been done openly and peacefully with due intimation to the administration.”Notably, while an FIR was also lodged in the district yesterday against the burning of 15 bundles of Jio’s fibre optic cables, the police have maintained that none of the farmer organisations were associated with it.

The Tribune

2020-12-29