Farmers halted train movement, squatting on tracks and voicing their demands.

Punjab Rail Roko Andolan, Farmers Protest Latest News Today: Punjab faced significant disruptions in rail services on Wednesday as farmers staged a three-hour ‘rail roko’ protest from 12 pm to 3 pm across 23 districts. Organized by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (Non-Political) and Kisan Mazdoor Morcha, the protest is the latest chapter in the ongoing farmers' agitation.

The demonstrators are pressing for a legal guarantee of Minimum Support Price (MSP) for crops, loan waivers, pensions for farmers and laborers, and justice for victims of the 2021 Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

At Sunam Railway Station, farmers halted train movement, squatting on tracks and voicing their demands. Visuals from Firozpur and other locations showed groups stopping trains and chanting slogans against the government.

Farmer leader Sarwan Singh Pandher confirmed the protest aligns with the ongoing agitation that began on February 13, after farmers’ attempts to march to Delhi were thwarted by security forces at Shambhu and Khanauri border points between Punjab and Haryana.

Efforts by 101 farmers to march to Delhi on foot were blocked by Haryana police on December 6, 8, and 14, forcing protesters to remain camped at the border points.

Meanwhile, farmer leader Jagjit Singh Dallewal announced that farmers would not participate in a meeting with the Supreme Court-appointed committee convening in Panchkula. Citing the poor health of injured farmers at the Shambhu border and his own deteriorating condition, Dallewal conveyed the decision in a letter to the committee's head, former judge Nawab Singh.

The committee was constituted on September 2 to address grievances of protesting farmers. While the Supreme Court stressed during a December 13 hearing that all recommendations would involve stakeholder consultation, farmers’ unions have opted to disengage from the process for now.