Jalandhar, April 22 -- Farmer unions, villagers and representatives of several political parties on Thursday threatened to block the Jalandhar-Pathankot national highway on April 23 for two hours over their demand of cancellation of the bio-CNG plant in the Bhogpur sugar mill.

The representatives led by Congress MLA from Adampur Sukhwinder Singh Kotli met senior officials of the district administration, urging them to immediately stop the operations of the plant on the sugar mill premises.

They claimed that tonnes of garbage would be dumped for bio management once the plant gets operational.

Kotli said the sugar mill administration is hell-bent upon starting operations at the plant.

"We were demanding cancellation of the agreement bet...