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Over 1,500 mobile towers damaged during farmers’ stir in Punjab; CM Amarinder Singh issues stern warning

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Updated: December 28th, 2020, 23:05 IST
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Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh said Monday that 1,561 mobile towers have been ‘impacted’ in the state during the farmers’ stir against the agri laws. He directed the police to take strict action against vandalisation and disruption of telecom services. Amarinder Singh asserted that he will not let Punjab plunge into anarchy at any cost. He said nobody can be allowed to take the law into their hands. The chief minister said he has been forced to toughen his stance as his repeated appeals to perpetrators of such acts had been ignored.

The chief minister said that the general public including students, professionals working from home and banking services would suffer the most if the mobile services were disrupted. He warned that the use of violence could alienate the protestors from the masses which would be detrimental to the interests of the farming community.

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A total of 1,561 mobile towers have been impacted in Punjab, according to an official statement. Punjab has a total of 21,306 mobile towers spread across its 22 districts.

Singh pointed out that his government had not objected to, or stopped, peaceful protests in the state against the Centre’s ‘black farm laws’. He said in a statement here that damage to property and inconvenience to the citizens could not, however, be endured.

Out of the total towers impacted, 25 had been damaged, allegedly by some farmers and their supporters in violation of the directions given by farmers’ unions to keep their protests against the farm laws peaceful.

Since Monday morning there was a disruption of power supply to 32 towers. It led to the disconnection of services of 114 more. So far, 433 towers have been repaired, according to the official statement.

Amid reports that the power supply to mobile towers was being disconnected allegedly by protesting farmers in different parts of the state during the past few days, Amarinder Singh had earlier Friday appealed to them to not inconvenience the general public with such actions.

The incidents were reported from Mansa, Barnala, Ferozepur and Moga with mobile towers of a particular telecom operator being targeted during the past few days, disrupting their services.

“With examinations, especially Board exams, nearing and students dependent on online education amid the Covid pandemic, such communication breakdown could seriously affect their future,” Singh said.

“The state government has already distributed 1.75 lakh smartphones to class XII students to equip them for the Board exams, but the vandalization of telecom property was hampering the students,” added the CM.

The chief minister further said that professionals working from home, with many of them having come to Punjab during the pandemic, could lose their jobs due to such acts of violence and damage to property.

Even banking services, which were also largely dependent on online transactions in these times of crisis, were taking a major hit due to these unlawful acts, Singh added.

 

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