Several trains have been cancelled and many short terminated amid the ongoing farmers’ agitation in the Ferozepur division of the Northern Railway, according to the Indian Railway.
The farmers under the banner of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangarsh Committee (KMSC) are holding a ‘rail-roko’ protest to seek a complete waiver of farm loans from the Punjab government and compensation to families whose members died during the course of the stir against the Centre’s farm laws.
Farmers have blocked railway tracks at Jandiala in Amritsar-Jalandhar Railway section, Tanda in Jalandhar-Pathankot Section, Tarn Taran in Amritsar-Khemkaran section and Ferozpur in Bathinda-Ferozpur Railway Section since Monday.