The Railway Ministry canceled cancellation of special trains, other routes and partial cancellations on the 19th day even today due to farmer agitation in Punjab.
According to railway sources, New Delhi - Jamoothavi Rajdhani Express, Jamoothavi - New Delhi Rajdhani Express, Haridwar - Amritsar Jan Shatabdi Special Express and Jan Shatabdi Special Express running between Amritsar to Haridwar, Kalka - Ambala Express and Ambala - Kalka Express trains 14 It has been decided to stay canceled till October.
While Amritsar - Bandra Terminus Express and Bandra Terminus Express, Amritsar - Mumbai Central Express, Kolkata - Amritsar Express are being run till Ambala. Amritsar - Kolkata is being run between Ambala to Kolkata and these trains will be partially canceled between Amritsar - Ambala. Amritsar - Nanded Sachkhand Express will run between New Delhi and these trains will be partially canceled between New Delhi-Amritsar - New Delhi.
New Delhi - Una Himachal Express will run between Chandigarh - New Delhi and it will be partially closed between Chandigarh - Una Himachal. Jaynagar - Amritsar Express train will run between Jayanagar - New Delhi and will be partially canceled between Delhi - Amritsar. Bandra Terminus-Jammuutvi Express will run till Ambala and has been canceled between Ambala to Jammu. It has also been decided to keep the Amritsar - New Jalpaiguri Humsafar Express between Amritsar - Saharanpur canceled.
According to railway sources, the Dibrugarh-Lalgarh Express train has been diverted via Rohtak-Bhiwani-Hisar-Hanumangarh. Railway Ministry officials say that it can be considered to run trains for Punjab only after the farmers' movement ends. Meanwhile, it has been learned that a special meeting of farmer groups has been convened in Jalandhar on October 13 to discuss coal and freight transportation etc. in view of the possibility of power crisis in Punjab.
According to sources, the farmer groups say that their movement is against the central government and not against the people. He does not want the general public to be disturbed by his movement. If sources are to be believed, in the above meeting by the farmer groups, the rail movement can decide to remove the jam while the agitation can be decided to continue for more days.