{"id":347711,"date":"2024-02-15T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=347711"},"modified":"2024-02-15T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T10:03:07","slug":"rail-roko-call-given-by-farmers-crippled-rail-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rail-roko-call-given-by-farmers-crippled-rail-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Rail Roko call given by farmers crippled rail service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"607\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-1024x607.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-1024x607.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-768x455.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-1536x910.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-2048x1213.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-696x412.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-1068x633.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-709x420.jpg 709w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/02\/15Asr-Farmers-block-the-railway-tracks-in-Amritsar-03-1920x1137.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">15 February 2024 Amritsar\nFarmers shout slogans against the central governments while blocking railway tracks during a demonstration over for a guaranteed minimum support price for all farm produce at  Vallah village on the outskirts of Amritsar on Thursday. Protesting Indian farmers Wednesday clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands of them tried to march to the capital New Delhi to demand guaranteed crop prices for their produce.\nPHOTO-PRABHJOT GILL AMRITSAR<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chandigarh :  Security arrangements\u00a0have been tightened in the wake of rail roko call\u00a0given by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police said they were keeping an hawk eye on the activities of farmer leaders so as to avoid any confrontation on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Railway official said that arrival and departure of the all the trains from Amritsar railway station remained normal till 12. P.m as all the trains arrived here as normal without any interruption.&nbsp; Similarly all the trains which were scheduled to depart from Amritsar before 12.00 p.m moved as per their scheduled time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>official further said that after 12.00 p.m train service badly crippled due to farmers agitation as they squat on railway track in the outer area of Amritsar district Railway track at village Devidaspura the rail line connecting Amritsar to Delhi. Official said that train service would&nbsp; be normalized when rail track would be freed by farmers after 4 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Hence after 12.00 p.m All the incoming and outgoing train services were badly affected here from &nbsp;Amritsar Railway Station &nbsp;as none of the train neither departed from Amritsar and nor arrived here due to the Rail Roko call given by the farmers outfit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, due &nbsp;to the farmers&#8217; Chalo Delhi agitation, the sealing of Haryana-Punjab suffered severe inconvenience. Earlier &nbsp;Sanyukt Kisan Morcha announced a Rail Roko drive and toll plazas to be made free, besides, they also gave a Bharat Bandh call for February 26 in support of their demands which also &nbsp;includes MSP.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh : Security arrangements\u00a0have been tightened in the wake of rail roko call\u00a0given by Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ugrahan). Police said they were keeping an hawk eye on the activities of farmer leaders so as to avoid any confrontation on Thursday. Railway official said that arrival and departure of the all the trains from Amritsar railway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":347712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15567,17387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347713,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347711\/revisions\/347713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/347712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}