Purulia (West Bengal) [India], September 21 (ANI): People from the Kurmi community in West Bengal continued their 'Rail Roko' protest in Purulia for the second day on Wednesday over their demand for Scheduled Tribe status.
Nagpur Mar 23 PTI Shiv Sena workers staged a protest in Nagpur on Wednesday against the latest hike in prices of petrol diesel and domestic cooking gas and demanded a roll-backThe protest was held at Golibar Chowk in the city where the party workers pressed for an immediate roll-back of the hike in fuel prices and threatened to launch a Rail Roko agitation if the central government did not accept their demandShiv Sena leader Suraj Goje said the Centre is not working for the benefit of common citizensThe people have been deceived by the BJPs false slogans of patriotism and Hindutva If the Centre does not roll-back the price hike Sena workers would start a Rail Roko agitation Goje warnedThe petrol and diesel prices were on Tuesday hiked by 80 paise a litre while the domestic cooking gas prices were increased by Rs 50 per cylinder ending an over four-and-half month election-related hiatus in rate revision PTI COR RSY RSY
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): Railway services in 184 locations in all seven zones of the railways were disrupted due to a nationwide 'Rail Roko' protest called by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha on Monday, as per the information received from the Ministry of Railways.
New Delhi [India], October 18 (ANI): As the 'Rail Roko Andolan' is being staged to protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri violence case in various parts of the country, the Northern Railway informed on Monday that around 50 trains have been affected in this regard.
New Delhi Oct 17 PTI The Samyukt Kisan Morcha SKM on Sunday said Rail Roko protests will be held across the country on October 18 to demand the dismissal and arrest Union Minister Ajay Mishra in connection with the Lakhimpur Kheri incidentIn a statement the umbrella body of farmer unions spearheading the farmers agitation against the Centres three agri laws said protests will only be intensified until justice is secured in the Lakhimpur Kheri caseThe SKM said during the rail roko protest all train traffic will be stopped for six hours from 10 am till 4 pm on MondayTo press for its demand for MoS Home Ajay Mishras dismissal and arrest so that justice can be secured in the Lakhimpur Kheri massacre Samyukt Kisan Morcha has announced a nation-wide Rail Roko program tomorrowSKM put out a call to its constituents to stop rail traffic for six hours on October 18 between 10 am and 4 pm The SKM asks for this action to be taken up peacefully without any destruction and damage of any kind to any railway property it saidFour of the eight people who died in the violence on October 3 were farmers allegedly knocked down by a vehicle carrying BJP workers Angry farmers then allegedly lynched some people in the vehiclesThe other dead included two BJP workers and their driverFarmers have claimed that Ashish Mishra was in one of the vehicles an allegation denied by him and Ajay Mishra who say they can produce evidence to prove he was at an event at that time Ashish Mishra was arrested in the case on October 9The SKM also claimed that at effigy-burning events across Uttar Pradesh several farmer leaders were put under house arrested while some were detainedSKM condemns this and asks the UP government not to suppress the right to protest of ordinary citizens it added PTI MAH TDS TDS