Farmers block traffic in Patiala

PATIALA, Oct 29: On the call of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta), Punjab, the district farmers organised a traffic jam at Patiala-Rajpura bypa...

PATIALA, Oct 29: On the call of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta), Punjab, the district farmers organised a traffic jam at Patiala-Rajpura bypass today to protest against the hike in the price of diesel ordered by the Union government.

The agitating farmers later lifted the traffic jam and proceeded in a protest march and organised a rally in front of the office of the Deputy Commissioner on the Mall Road.

While addressing the rally, Peshora Singh Sidhupur, state president of the union, strongly condemned the decision of the Union government in hiking the prices of diesel by 40 per cent and the increasing of sales tax by 8 per cent by the state government. He said Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal claimed himself to be pro-farmer, bit his actions had proved otherwise.

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He said the government has no reason to justify its decision on increasing the price of diesel and appealed to the government to order immediate withdrawal of the hike.

Others who spoke on the occasion included Gurmit Singh Ditupur, state general secretary of Bhartiya Kisan Union, and Shamsher Singh Raipur, district president of the union.

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