Farmers’ union stops around 30 paddy trucks in Amritsar coming from UP

Oct 23, 2020

Amritsar (Punjab), Oct 23 (ANI): Kisan union, Azad Kisan Sangharsh Committee members held a protest near Amritsar toll plaza on October 23. They have stopped around 30 paddy trucks coming from Uttar Pradesh. Protesters are opposing the selling of these paddy trucks coming from Uttar Pradesh in Punjab. They claimed that these are not trucks of farmers but businessmen. Kisan leader, Harjeet Singh said, “This is robbery of farmers, we have stopped 30 paddy trucks here, these are not farmers’ trucks but of businessmen. With this, farmers of Punjab will not get fair price of their crop.” On the other side, truck drivers are facing trouble due to the protest of farmers. “What is our fault in all this? We are just doing our duty. Let us go, we have loan installments of bank to pay,” pleaded a truck driver.