Chandigarh, Oct 21 (UNI) Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has welcomed the Kisan Unions’ decision to allow movement of goods trains, saying it was in the interest of the state’s economy and its revival.
Thanking the farmer unions for heeding his appeal, the Chief Minister said the farmers had shown their love and concern for the people of Punjab with this move, as it will allow the state to get its much-needed coal supplies. He pointed out that the people of Punjab had been facing a total power shutdown as a result of coal shortage due to the blockade, and the decision of the unions had come as a major relief to them.
Captain Amarinder said farmer organisations, with this decision, had also ensured that the industry would not have to suffer more but would get back on the path to revival. The Rail Roko of the farmers had caused huge financial losses to the industry, thus compounding the crisis triggered by the Covid pandemic.