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Amritsar
Farmers, who are protesting against the Central farm laws, intercepted trucks laden with goods of a big corporate house on the Amritsar-Jalandhar GT Road early on Sunday.
Alleging the corporate house had evaded paying mandatory taxes, the farmers said the vehicles would not be released till the trucks laden with urea and other agrarian essential ingredients stranded near Ambala were allowed to reach here.
Rajewala village sarpanch Dilbagh Singh said seven trucks were intercepted between 4 am and 4.30 am on Sunday near the Nijjar toll plaza on the GT Road where they had been observing a sit-in for the past 24 days.
“We have been observing that these trucks are frequently passing through without interruption. When we intercepted one of the trucks, we found that a corporate house against which farmers are protesting was supplying goods. The consignment was supposed to be delivered directly to retail shops in Amritsar. We have seized the vehicles but would release them only after the trucks laden with urea stranded in Ambala reach here,” he said. Harjeet Singh Jheeta, press secretary, Azad Kisan Sangharsh Committee, claimed that after scrutinising the documents, it was discovered that no taxes were charged on supplied goods.
“The goods worth Rs 50 lakh were never charged any GST. There was no mention of either Centre or state GST on the papers. The police never checked these trucks on the inter-state border,” he alleged.
Group to meet AG on Bills
Meanwhile, the ‘rail roko’ agitation at Jandiala entered the 39th day today. A group of protesting farmers is scheduled to meet the Attorney General (AG), Punjab, to gain better understanding of the state’s farm Bills on November 3. The meeting has been possible after the intervention of Cabinet ministers Tript Rajinder
Bajwa, Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria and Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.
“We want to understand how the state government, which had passed the farm Bills in the Vidhan Sabha against the Central laws, would help our cause. To clear the doubts, a meeting has been scheduled with the Attorney General on November 3,” said Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee.
