Farmers raise blockade from one facet of Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch in Punjab’s Phagwara
By PTI
PHAGWARA: Farmers protesting right here for the previous 5 days over the non-payment of dues by a sugar mill lifted the blockade from one facet of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch of the National Highway-1 on Saturday.
The choice got here after Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal stated his authorities has withdrawn the letter of open public sale of the Phagwara sugar mill property and directed the Kapurthala deputy commissioner to expedite direct registry of it.
Dhaliwal had held a two-hour-long assembly with farmers’ representatives and senior officers right here late Friday night.
The open public sale letter had develop into a bone of competition and angered the farmers, the minister had stated.
However, farmers stated they may proceed to dam one facet of the freeway.
Manjit Singh Rai, president of the Bharti Kisan Union (Doaba), and Satnam Singh Sahni, common secretary of the farmer physique, on Saturday stated blockades on roads resulting in Hoshiarpur, Nakodar and Nawanshahr have additionally been lifted.
Service lanes and different arterial routes have been additionally cleared of any impediment for the comfort of the general public, they stated.
The one facet of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana part of NH-1 had been blocked since Monday whereas the opposite facet was blocked on Friday.
The farmer leaders stated they got the federal government’s letter by way of which the situation of open public sale of sugar mill’s Fatehabad property was withdrawn.
They stated the minister shared a number of different measures to be taken for making the mill administration fall in line.
However, the farmer leaders stated a large gathering of farmers from throughout Punjab will probably be held right here on August 25 if Rs 72 crore of cane farmers weren’t cleared by then.
All 31 constituents of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha will participate within the huge morcha of August 25, they stated.
They additionally stated they haven’t known as off their protest.
“Our indefinite ‘dharna’ and partial blockade will continue,” they stated.
“We have already been allowing school buses, emergency cases and ambulances during our earlier blockade,” they stated.
Meanwhile, farmer chief Balbir Singh Rajewal, whereas addressing the sit-in, requested the federal government to not nurture any false impression that farmers have been divided.
“We may have certain differences of opinion but when it comes to struggle, we all are one,” stated Rajewal.
He alleged that the mill proprietor cheated farmers by not paying their Rs 72 crore arrear.
He stated it was the federal government’s accountability to get their dues from the mill and provides it to farmers.
“Why should farmers run after mill management for getting their own money,” he requested.
Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh additionally joined the farmers’ indefinite ‘dharna’.
Addressing the protesters, Congress MLA Singh assured them that opposition MLAs will meet Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and lift their points with him.
PHAGWARA: Farmers protesting right here for the previous 5 days over the non-payment of dues by a sugar mill lifted the blockade from one facet of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch of the National Highway-1 on Saturday.
The choice got here after Punjab Agriculture Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal stated his authorities has withdrawn the letter of open public sale of the Phagwara sugar mill property and directed the Kapurthala deputy commissioner to expedite direct registry of it.
Dhaliwal had held a two-hour-long assembly with farmers’ representatives and senior officers right here late Friday night.
The open public sale letter had develop into a bone of competition and angered the farmers, the minister had stated.
However, farmers stated they may proceed to dam one facet of the freeway.
Manjit Singh Rai, president of the Bharti Kisan Union (Doaba), and Satnam Singh Sahni, common secretary of the farmer physique, on Saturday stated blockades on roads resulting in Hoshiarpur, Nakodar and Nawanshahr have additionally been lifted.
Service lanes and different arterial routes have been additionally cleared of any impediment for the comfort of the general public, they stated.
The one facet of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana part of NH-1 had been blocked since Monday whereas the opposite facet was blocked on Friday.
The farmer leaders stated they got the federal government’s letter by way of which the situation of open public sale of sugar mill’s Fatehabad property was withdrawn.
They stated the minister shared a number of different measures to be taken for making the mill administration fall in line.
However, the farmer leaders stated a large gathering of farmers from throughout Punjab will probably be held right here on August 25 if Rs 72 crore of cane farmers weren’t cleared by then.
All 31 constituents of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha will participate within the huge morcha of August 25, they stated.
They additionally stated they haven’t known as off their protest.
“Our indefinite ‘dharna’ and partial blockade will continue,” they stated.
“We have already been allowing school buses, emergency cases and ambulances during our earlier blockade,” they stated.
Meanwhile, farmer chief Balbir Singh Rajewal, whereas addressing the sit-in, requested the federal government to not nurture any false impression that farmers have been divided.
“We may have certain differences of opinion but when it comes to struggle, we all are one,” stated Rajewal.
He alleged that the mill proprietor cheated farmers by not paying their Rs 72 crore arrear.
He stated it was the federal government’s accountability to get their dues from the mill and provides it to farmers.
“Why should farmers run after mill management for getting their own money,” he requested.
Jalandhar Cantonment MLA Pargat Singh additionally joined the farmers’ indefinite ‘dharna’.
Addressing the protesters, Congress MLA Singh assured them that opposition MLAs will meet Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann and lift their points with him.
