Hundreds of farmers streamed onto the railway tracks in Punjab on Monday in response to the call given by the Sanyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) – the umbrella body that is spearheading the protests against the three contentious farm laws – to protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre and demand the expulsion of BJP MP, Ajay Mishra, from the Union Cabinet.
In Punjab, the ‘rail roko’ andolan was organised at 108 places by the farmer unions from 10 am-4 pm. In two places – the Ludhiana Ferozepur line and the Ferozepur Fazilka line – the protests started much earlier, between 5 am-8 am as the farmers arrived early on these tracks. In the Ambala division, four trains – including the Chandigarh-New Delhi Shatabdi Express – were cancelled,
