Gurjar body starts stir over reservation; trains diverted

TIL Desk/National/Jaipur/ A major Gurjar organisation on Sunday started an agitation over reservation, a day after community leaders held talks with the Rajasthan government and reached a consensus on 14 points. The call for the agitation was given by the Gurjar Aarakshan Sangharsh Samiti.

 According to police, youths in large numbers blocked a rail track in Bharatpur’s Bayana. Routes of seven passenger trains were changed in the wake of the Gurjar agitation, a North-Western Railways spokesman said.

Seven trains were diverted due to a blockade on the Hindaun City-Bayana railway line, the spokesperson said in a statement.The trains diverted due to the agitation are the Hazrat Nizamuddin-Kota; Bandra Terminus-Muzaffarpur; Kota-Dehradun; Indore-Hazrat Nizamuddin; Hazrat Nizamuddin-Indore and Hazrat Nizamuddin-Udaipur; and Udaipur-Hazrat Nizamuddin.

The convener of the organisation, Colonel Kirori Singh Bainsla, said he is waiting for State Sports and Youth Minister Ashok Chandna to come to Bayana from Jaipur.