At least 10 trains were cancelled, six short terminated and another four trains had to be diverted on Wednesday after Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) launched an indefinite rail roko agitation at Gurdaspur railway station in protest against their pending demands, according to information revealed by Ferozepur railway division. Farmers sat on the track by spreading ‘durries’. A few of them also plan to sleep on the track by putting mattresses and erecting tents at the protest site, said Baljinder Singh Talwandi, press secretary of KMSC.
This belt has sugarcane-growing farmers, who claimed that their pending dues of sugarcane crop haven’t been cleared yet. Apart from this, farmers are unhappy with the compensation amount being given under Bharatmala project –
