Modi’s ‘Agnipath’ Burnt NDA Ruled States
- 17-Jun-2022
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New Delhi, (BDNS): Agnipath recruitment scheme faced protest across the country for the second day on Friday, a youth from Telangana became the first casualty, killed in police firing in Secunderabad.
The protests were most violent in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, where protesters set ablaze a train, buses and a police outpost, and NDA-ruled Bihar, where the houses of state BJP president Dr Sanjay Jaiswal and Deputy Chief Minister Renu Devi were targeted and several coaches of at least 14 trains were set on fire.
Protests were also reported from other states including Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Madhya Pradesh.
In Uttar Pradesh, an empty train was set on fire in Ballia district. “There was information that some students had gathered at the railway station and stadium. Senior officials started a dialogue with them and the students were dispersed from there. While leaving the railway station, they tried to break the windows of an empty train and set on fire a train stationed in an isolated area,” said Ballia Superintendent of Police (SP) Raj Karan Nayyar, adding that “around 100 people” had been held.
Protests were also reported in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi, where two State Roadways buses were vandalised.
The RJD-led Grand Alliance has called a Bihar bandh on Saturday. “We are trying to identify protesters to check for involvement of anti-social elements,” said Bihar Additional Director of Police (law and order) Sanjay Singh. Over the last two days, at least 300 people have been held. As protesters clashed with police in several areas, police fired in the air in Bhagalpur.
In Jammu and Kashmir, traffic on the Pathankot-Jammu and Jammu-Poonch highways was disrupted for a few hours as protesters held demonstrations for the second day.
