A total of at least 700 trains have been affected since December 20 when protestors gathered under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) blocked the railway tracks at seven locations across Punjab.
The rail roko protest was organised to demand compensation for the families of two farmers associated with KMSC who lost their lives at the Singhu border during the year-long protest against the three farm laws, government jobs for family members of 25 farmers who died at the various protest sites and quashing of all FIRs lodged during the course of the agitation, said KMSC general secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher. He added, FIRs lodged by the railways are yet to be quashed.
