Rail track blocked for 2nd successive day in Gurdaspur, commuters irked

Tribune News Service

Gurdaspur, February 23

Hundreds of angry commuters questioned the logic and the rationale of protesting farmers over the blocking of railway tracks and stopping them from proceeding to their respective destinations when they are not in a position to solve any of their demands.

For the second successive day, 400-odd farmers laid siege to the Pathankot-Gurdaspur-Amritsar railway track at the Gurdaspur railway station. The situation remained tense as harried commuters squarely blamed the protestors for “disrupting their livelihood and their daily lives” for no fault of theirs.

“The farmers’ primary demand on getting legal teeth for MSP on foodgrain has to be taken up by the Centre. How are we involved? Their other demand is to give them adequate compensation for land acquired for the Katra e-way project. Again, this has to be looked into by the NHAI. We fail to understand why we are being punished,” said Daljit Singh, a commuter stranded on his way to Pune.

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