September 19, 2024

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Video: Protestors steal generator of Jio Tower, ‘donate’ it to Gurdwara

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Amidst the continuing agitation towards the historic farm legal guidelines, ‘protesting farmers’ in Punjab have been seen stealing turbines linked to Reliance Jio telecom towers, and ‘donating’ it to a Gurudwara.
In a video that has now gone viral on social media, protestors have been seen dragging a generator set on a tractor to the gurdwara after dislodging it from the Jio Tower. The different protestors have been seen following the tractor on its technique to the Gurdwara. The video has now gone viral on social media.

(Video Courtesy: Youtube/Opindia)The ‘protestors’ have been concentrating on Reliance Jio towers as a result of Congress politicians have been spreading rumours and misinformation that “Ambani and Adani are about to exploit farmers”. Earlier, the protestors at Delhi border have been seen urging individuals to not use Jio sim.
Captain Amarinder Singh appeals to protestors
While the Congress occasion has been a vocal supporter of the anti-farm legislation agitation and has remained a mute spectator to the inconvenience prompted to the general public over the previous few months, Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had a sudden ‘change of coronary heart‘ on Friday. The Punjab authorities, realising the damaging scenario, appealed to the protestors to not disrupt connections or manhandle staff and technicians of telecom firms.
Protestors destroy 150 telecom towers
Despite Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh’s enchantment, the ‘protesting farmers’ have destroyed 150 extra telecom towers in a single day on Saturday and Sunday alone. This takes the full variety of telecom towers broken to 1,388. News company PTI citing sources stated that web site managers have been slapped and abused for attempting to cease the protestors from destroying the infrastructure.
Power strains are snapped and makes an attempt to axe towers have been undertaken by the ‘protesting farmers’. The assaults have impacted telecom companies and operators who’re struggling to keep up companies in absence of motion by the state police, the report stated.
It is notable that at current, telecom operators don’t personal the towers the place their antennas are positioned. The towers are owned and operated by separate tower firms, and telecom firms place their antennas on the towers by paying hire for a similar. Due to this association, a single tower might comprise antennas of a number of cell phone firms. Therefore, though the protestors are concentrating on Jio, they could by accident harm telecom operations of different firms additionally as they share sources on the towers.