Farmers take out protest rally in Surat

On Friday afternoon, a large number of farmers from the 15 villages gathered at Jehangirpura area and later took out a vehicle rally that culminated at Surat Collectorate in Athwalines area.

Farmers’ leader Darshan Naik said, ” The affected farmers had demanded that there is an existing broad gauge goods railway track that starts from Kribhco at Hazira to Gothan village and no new land acquisition should be done for the project. Only three or four times the goods train passes from the existing track. The existing railway line of Kribhco to Gothan should be extended to Hazira.”