Telecom disruption will hurt economy, CM Amarinder Singh says in appeal
At least two farmer bodies, Friday said disconnecting power to mobile towers was never on their agenda and that they had only given calls to boycott Reliance stores and products. Updated: December 26, 2020 2:33:28 am
Amarinder s appeal came in the wake of a request from the Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association (TAIPA), a registered body of telecom infrastructure providers.
Amid reports that farmers were disconnecting power supply to Jio mobile towers in Punjab, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh Friday appealed to them to not inconvenience the general public with such actions.
Pointing out that telecom connectivity had become even more critical for people amid the Covid-19pandemic, Amarinder said the farmers should show the same discipline and sense of responsibility which they had been exercising during their protest at the Delhi border, which completed one month,
High-decibel protest aimed at PM Undaunted, farmers announce intensification of their agitation Call to clang vessels to drown out next Sunday’s instalment of Modi’s monthly radio broadcast, Mann Ki Baat
The farmers on Sunday announced an intensification of their agitation to exert political, diplomatic and economic pressure on the government, including a high-decibel protest aimed at Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
They issued a call to supporters to clang vessels to drown out next Sunday’s instalment of Modi’s monthly radio broadcast,
Mann Ki Baat, turning the Prime Minister’s own idea against him. Modi had in March asked all Indians to beat utensils and clap hands at a specific time to applaud the frontline workers in the fight against the pandemic.
The agitation by farmers camping on the Delhi borders since November 26 to demand repeal of the new agricultural laws continued for the 15th day on Thursday, with peasant leaders adamant on intensifying the protests further. After rejecting the central government s proposal to amend the new laws, the parleys of farmer leaders with the Centre seem derailed at the moment and no new initiative is forthcoming in this direction. Farmer leaders sitting on a dharna on the Singhu border on the Delhi-Ambala route said that their protest will last until the Centre withdrew all three agricultural laws. Farmer leader Gurvinder Singh Kum Kalan, associated with the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), told IANS: Our movement will continue till the government withdraws the new laws. Our leaders have announced the closure of all major roads and highways towards Delhi and a protest demonstration across the country on December 14.
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