Transporters threaten to halt operations

Update: 2010-09-15 00:00 GMT

NEW DELHI, Dec 2 - Coming forward in support of agitating farmers, transporters� apex body AIMTC on Wednesday threatened to halt operations in northern India from December 8 if the government fails to address concerns of the farming community.

The AIMTC is the apex body of transporters, representing about 95 lakh truckers and other entities.

�AIMTC has already extended its support to the farmer agitation... We have decided on stopping our operations starting from North India and if the government does not address the issue of the farmers then we may decide to go for shutting down of transport operations nationwide in their support,� AIMTC president Kultaran Singh Atwal said. � PTI

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