Commuters in Punjab faced inconvenience on Friday as many buses stayed off the roads in response to the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s call for a ‘Bharat Bandh’.
Punjab Roadways, Punbus and PRTC Contract Workers’ Union are supporting the Samyukta Kisan Morcha’s (SKM) bandh call. During the day, farmers will also hold demonstrations at many places in Punjab under the banner of the SKM to press the government to accept farmers’ demands including a legal guarantee of MSP.
Many farmer bodies including Bharti Kisan Union (Rajewal), Bharatiya Kisan Union (Dakunda), Bharatiya Kisan Union (Lakhowal), Bharatiya Kisan Union (Qadian) and Kirti Kisan Union are taking part in the bandh.
Mainly students and office goers faced inconvenience due to the non availability of buses at bus stops.
Besides a legal guarantee of MSP, the farmers are demanding the implementation of the Swaminathan Commission’s recommendations, pension for farmers and farm laborer’s, farm debt waiver, no hike in electricity tariff, withdrawal of police cases and ‘justice’ for the victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence, reinstatement of the Land Acquisition Act, 2013, and compensation to the families of the farmers who died during a previous agitation in 2020-21.
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