Road, rail traffic blocked at many places in Moga district
Kulwinder Sandhu
Tribune News Service
Moga, September 27
Life in Moga district was disrupted on Monday as a nationwide shutdown against three farm laws got under way with protesters blocking highways and key roads, and squatting on railway tracks at some places.
BKU Krantikari Moga activists started squatting on the railway track at Dagru village at about 6.10 am and also on the Moga-Ferozepur national highway adjoining the railway track. Both rail and road traffic on the Moga-Ferozepur railway track and national highway was blocked, respectively.
At 6.20 am, BKU Ekta Ugrahan activists started dharna/road jam at Killi Chahal village on the Moga-Ludhiana road and blocked the highway.
At 6.25 am, BKU Krantikari activists started dharna/road jam at Jalalabad village on the Moga-Jalandhar highway and blocked the road traffic.
At 6.30 am, the BKU Ekta Ugrahan activists started dharna/road jam at Smalsar village on the Kotakpura-Baghapurana highway and blocked the road traffic.
The BKU Lakhowal activists blocked traffic on the main square of the Moga town while another group of farmers blocked the Moga-Baghapurana road at the toll plaza on the outskirts of Chand Purana village.
The highways and link roads were also blocked at Kot-Ise-Khan, Dharamkot, Lohara, Jawahar Singh Wala, Bilaspur, Buttar Kalan, Nathuwala Garbi and Nathoke villages.
The farmers also staged a protest outside the Silo food grains storage at Dagru village.
The protests were going on peacefully and no untoward incident was reported from any part of the district so far.
