Amritsar: KMSC all set for 'rail roko' stir from Dec 20

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 15

The Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) on Wednesday held a convention to make preparations for its scheduled ‘rail roko’ stir from December 20. The KMSC had given a call for blocking rail traffic demanding complete loan waiver, compensation and jobs for the families of those who died during the protest, ownership rights to the cultivators, release of dues of sugarcane growers and other issues.

The leaders said the payment of paddy crop of many farmers had been stopped due to red entries in their revenue records. KMSC general secretary Sarwan Singh Pandher said: “These farmers are still waiting for their dues even as they had sold their crop two months ago. In agriculture sector, most farmers are dependent on their biannual income and harassing them in such a way is not justified.”

The farmer leaders said many issues related to the agriculture sector were still unresolved and the ‘rail roko’ programme would put spotlight on such problems. The KMSC had participated in the recent agitation of farmers, but is not a part of the Sanyukt Kisan Morcha. It followed the SKM from time to time, but also maintained its separate identity. It even had set up a separate stage at Singhu border and did not share space with unions associated with SKM.