Stepping up their agitation against the Centre, farmers associated with 19 different farmers’ outfits on Thursday started a three-day rail roko agitation across Punjab to press for fulfilment of their demands including a law on assured Minimum Support Price (MSP).
Members of these organisations squatted and blocked railway tracks at 17 different places across different districts including Moga, Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Tarn Taran, Sangrur, Patiala, Ferozepur, Bathinda, and Amritsar in the State, said Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Punjab unit of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, which is one of the outfits participating in the agitation.
As farmers blocked the tracks, it affected railway services in some places, resulting in disruption of long-distance and local train movement in the State.
