The farm unions will meet in New Delhi on Jan 24 and 25 to chalk out future strategy

The farm unions will meet in New Delhi on Jan 24 and 25 to chalk out future strategy

- Parteek Singh Mahal

AMRITSAR: Panic gripped Amritsar's Gumtala police chowki after an explosion was heard on Thursday night around 8.45.

While police maintained that it was a car radiator that exploded, a social media post, purportedly by USA-based terrorist Happy Passia, went viral soon after the incident.

In the post, Passia claimed responsibility for what he termed was a grenade attack carried out to avenge the killing of two of his associates in a fake encounter. Following the incident, senior police officials reached the spot.

Assistant commissioner of police (ACP, West) Shiv Darshan Singh said, "Chowki in-charge, ASI Rajinder Singh was busy in public dealing when he heard a loud explosion outside. He rushed out and saw that his car window was shattered. On enquiring, he found that the car's radiator had exploded. There are rumours that it was a grenade blast but it is not true."

The ACP added that no loss of life or property has been reported.

Since November 23, seven blasts have rocked police installations in Punjab since November last year.

MOGA: The Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), an umbrella body of 32 farm unions, passed a resolution calling for unity among the farm factions for joint action against the Centre over unfulfilled demands during the second kisan mahapanchayat at Moga on Thursday.

Passing the 'unity resolution', the SKM called for a joint farmers' movement to get the draft of the national policy framework for agricultural marketing scraped, implementation of the agreed demands of the Delhi morcha, including the creation of a law for legal guarantee of MSP as per recommendations of the Swaminathan report, debt relief of farmers, labourers and to redress other issues of the cultivators.