Even as the Railways on Monday resumed freight trains services in Punjab while announcing to possible recommencement of passenger trains from Tuesday, the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (KMSC) refused to budge from its stand of now allowing movement of passenger trains till the farmers’ demands of repealing the new agri acts were met.

Expressing serious concern over the decision, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh said that this would put the people to major inconvenience and could have grave consequences for the state.

Notably, the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (Piddi) has announced that they would not budge on their rail blockade of passenger trains till the Farm Laws’ issue is resolved.

“By striking this discordant note, the Union is acting against the interests of Punjab and its people,” he said.

“When all the other 31 farmer organizations have decided unanimously to withdraw from the tracks to allow both goods and passenger trains to move in the State for the next 15 days, this one union’s decision is not understandable,” said Capt Amarinder, adding that this would alienate Kissan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (Piddi) from the people.

He cautioned the Committee against taking such a harsh stand, which could lead to them losing the support of the masses, who had so far wholeheartedly backed the farmers’ agitation against the Farm Laws. “When the State Government and every person in Punjab have been extending their full support to the farmers, why is this Union taking a stance against their own state” he asked.

Given that both the Centre and the other Kissan Unions had taken conciliatory steps to resolve the crisis triggered by the agricultural laws, the Kissan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (Piddi) should not do anything to derail the process of negotiation and discussion, he added.

It was in the interest of all, including the farmers themselves, to find a solution to the problems unleashed by the central laws, on which every section of Punjab’s populace, as well as his government, was standing shoulder to shoulder with the farming community, said the Chief Minister.

The message that was emanating from the contrarian and adamant stand of the Kissan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee (Piddi) was that the union was not really interested in breaking the stalemate on the Farm Laws issue, Capt Amarinder said.

In any case, said the Chief Minister, blocking one-odd track would serve no purpose even for the Committee, which, incidentally, had chosen to stay away from the meeting convened by him on Saturday to urge the farm unions to lift their blockade.