Agriculture laws: Farmers' groups to continue protests in Punjab

Bathinda: Despite the Punjab government's concerns over over coal supplies, need to bring fertilisers and moving food grains out of the state through goods trains, the agitating Punjab farmers have decided to continue with the protests on railway tracks, toll plazas and at the business establishments of the corporates.
The farmers, however, have decided to take back the call for boycott of the Congress after the state government decided to convene a special session of the state assembly on October 19 to negate the farm laws.
The farmers also decided to hold big protests across the state on October 17 where the effigies of the Narendra Modi government will be burnt. Theorganisations are on protest against newly-enacted farm laws since October 1.
The decisions were taken in a meeting of 30 except BKU Ekta Ugrahan, which skipped the meeting. The groups will again hold a meeting on October 20 to further review the protests.
Kirti Kisan Union president Nirbhay Singh Dhudike, under whose leadership the meeting was organised on Thursday, said that the farmers' organisations felt betrayed by the Union government on Wednesday as no Union minister turned up for meeting with farmers.” He said a movement like protests will be organised against the BJP which has proved to be anti-farmer.