AMBALA: As many as 149 trains were affected on Wednesday due to ongoing farmers’ protest on the eighth consecutive day at Shambhu railway station on the Ambala-Ludhiana rail line, said an official of the Ambala division of Northern Railways.
As per Deepak Kumar, chief public relation officer of Ambala Division, 75 trains were cancelled, 64 were diverted to other routes, and 10 were either short terminated or short originated.
Due to this protest demanding release of three farm activists arrested by Haryana police, in the last 8 days, about 1139 trains including mail express, Shatabdi, passenger, have been cancelled or diverted. The impact of the Ambala-Ludhiana railway line blockade has started to come to Ambala’s cloth market also, as traders are struggling to transport their goods which they did through trains at cheaper fare, as compared to other modes of transport.
Shambhu railway station is on a key rail line as through this line Delhi is connected to Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, but the train traffic has remained affected in the last eight days.
The farmers remained seated on the railway lines and kept raising anti-BJP and anti-government slogans. Farmer leader Sarvan Singh Pandher who addressed the farmers protesting at Shambhu said, “Our morchas at Shambhu, Khanauri and Dabwali borders have entered 71 days. Our forums will hold large gatherings at these morchas on completion of 100 days of our protest.”
“The gatherings of farmers from all over the country on the 100th day of our morchas will be such that the roots of the Modi government will be shaken. Yesterday, BJP leaders ran away from answering our questions. Today, the Modi government after giving the slogan of Viksit Bharat, is running away from the agenda of development”, said Pandher.
Pandher called out the government to immediately order girdawari to give compensation to farmers, who suffered loss of crop due to rain and hailstorm.
As per Deepak Kumar, chief public relation officer of Ambala Division, 75 trains were cancelled, 64 were diverted to other routes, and 10 were either short terminated or short originated.
Due to this protest demanding release of three farm activists arrested by Haryana police, in the last 8 days, about 1139 trains including mail express, Shatabdi, passenger, have been cancelled or diverted. The impact of the Ambala-Ludhiana railway line blockade has started to come to Ambala’s cloth market also, as traders are struggling to transport their goods which they did through trains at cheaper fare, as compared to other modes of transport.
Shambhu railway station is on a key rail line as through this line Delhi is connected to Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir, but the train traffic has remained affected in the last eight days.
The farmers remained seated on the railway lines and kept raising anti-BJP and anti-government slogans. Farmer leader Sarvan Singh Pandher who addressed the farmers protesting at Shambhu said, “Our morchas at Shambhu, Khanauri and Dabwali borders have entered 71 days. Our forums will hold large gatherings at these morchas on completion of 100 days of our protest.”
“The gatherings of farmers from all over the country on the 100th day of our morchas will be such that the roots of the Modi government will be shaken. Yesterday, BJP leaders ran away from answering our questions. Today, the Modi government after giving the slogan of Viksit Bharat, is running away from the agenda of development”, said Pandher.
Pandher called out the government to immediately order girdawari to give compensation to farmers, who suffered loss of crop due to rain and hailstorm.