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Punjab farmers and power employees across Punjab held statewide protests on Dec 8 outside PSPCL offices and burned copies of the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2025, days after disrupting trains with a two-hour rail roko on Dec 5.

Unions fear the Bill will allow private companies to take profitable customers, collapse cross-subsidies, end free/subsidised farm power, and reduce Punjab’s control over its electricity sector.

Agitation leaders have warned of bigger actions, including fresh rail blockades, if the Centre does not withdraw the draft Bill immediately.

As Punjab's agricultural heartland braces for winter sowing, farmer unions have intensified their agitation against the central government's draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2025, viewing it as a direct a

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