BATHINDA: Thirty farmer organisations, which had allowed the movement of freight trains in Punjab till November 5 for transportation of various commodities, are expected to decide on a future course of action in a meeting on Wednesday.
The farmers had vacated the railway tracks on October 22, but the movement of trains could be held for only two days as the farmers had stopped an empty passenger train in Faridkot and another freight train at Adani Group silo near Moga. On those two days, 173 freight trains had moved from different places.
During the intervening period from October 22 to November 3, BKU (Ekta Ugrahan) disrupted railway tracks outside two private thermal plants at Banawali village in Mansa and Nalash village in Patiala.
Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee had earlier held protests on railway tracks at Devidaspura village and Jandiala Guru.
“The joint meeting of 30 farm organisations will be held on Wednesday where a decision will be taken regarding the future course of action. We had vacated the railway tracks on October 22, and it was up to the railways to operate freight trains, but it ran trains only for two days and stopping further movement on flimsy grounds,” said BKU (Ekta Dakaunda) general secretary Jagmohan Singh.