‘Rail roko’ by farmers passes off peacefully
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There was ‘negligible’ impact on running of trains: Railways.
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Farmers protest at the Modinagar railway station in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh on February 18, 2021.
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There was ‘negligible’ impact on running of trains: Railways.
Protesting farmers sat on railway tracks at hundreds of locations, and stopped some trains during a four-hour ‘rail roko’ agitation on Thursday. The Railways said there was a “negligible” impact on the running of trains across the country.
For a few passengers on trains stopped by the agitation, the ‘rail roko’ involved showering of flower petals and jaggery and distribution of milk by protesting farmers. In other locations, tractors were brought onto the tracks.
Farmers block tracks in Haryana
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Women participate in large numbers in the ‘rail roko’ programme at two places
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Women participate in large numbers in the ‘rail roko’ programme at two places
Agitating farmers supported by khaps laid blockade at 44 points across Haryana on Thursday as part of Samyukt Kisan Morcha’s “rail roko” programme, seeking the repeal of the three farm laws and legal guarantee for the Minimum Support Price. The women also participated in the protest in large numbers at Rohtak and Charkhi Dadri.
Of the 16 police stations of the Government Railway Police, Hisar, Sirsa, Jind and Rohtak accounted for 24 points which is more than half the total number of blockades. The railway tracks were blocked at nine points in Hisar, followed by seven in Sirsa, and four each in Rohtak and Jind. In Bahadurgarh, one of the sites of sit-in agitation for the past two months, the farmers blocked the railway traffic at five points.
Mahapanchayats giving timely impetus to farmers’ protest
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February 15, 2021 00:25 IST
Backed by the khaps, men and women farmers have come en masse to support the protest
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Backed by the khaps, men and women farmers have come en masse to support the protest
The two-month-old farmers’ sit-in agitation around Delhi opposing the three farm laws seemed set to fizzle out in the aftermath of the Republic Day violence during the tractor parade, but the series of khap
mahapanchayats in its wake have apparently turned the tide.
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mahapanchayats have emerged as new rallying points for the agitating farmers after Republic Day. The massive turnouts at these meetings have not only been just a show of strength, but also given a new lease of life to the movement.