CHANDIGARH, July 17 — Extensive demonstrations are set to take place at district administrative headquarters across the state on Friday following a coordinated call by agricultural unions amid Prime Minister’s project launches. The Kisan Mazdoor Morcha affirmed that public effigy-burning assemblies will systematically mark their opposition to recent infrastructure policies and international trade frameworks. Union coordinators declared that the operational updates planned for local transport hubs, including Jalandhar, represent an active shift toward corporate control over public assets.
The organizing committee maintained that the current central trade pacts significantly threaten domestic rural livelihoods while systematically overlooking long-standing financial safety nets. Union representatives asserted that the lack of legal mechanisms for minimum crop pricing leaves primary producers exceptionally vulnerable to external market shifts.
“The inauguration of the Jalandhar railway station today marks the official beginning of his privatisation policy,” stated Kisan Mazdoor Morcha leader Sarwan Singh Pandher in a public briefing. “Under the move, railway stations will be handed over to big corporate houses.”
Beyond direct economic concerns, the union has introduced a formal demand for the establishment of a dedicated public commission to investigate historical disappearances and casualities involving both Hindu and Sikh communities during the peak militancy period of the 1980s and 1990s. Leaders declared that addressing these long-standing historical grievances is necessary to ensure societal justice and heal past communal fractures.
“I would like to remind everyone, including those who are employed in the railways, especially Hindu brothers, since the majority of employees in the railways are Hindus who are on the verge of losing their jobs,” Pandher affirmed.
The union leadership stated that the upcoming public demonstrations are also aimed at calling attention to the perceived indifference shown toward the hundreds of farmers who lost their lives during past boundary agitations at Shambhu and Khanauri. The group maintained that their struggle will continue until structural debt waivers are fully executed and comprehensive legal guarantees for crop returns are permanently written into state policy.
