Dalit group stages rail roko a day after bandh was called off
Dalit group headed group headed by party president Bhai Saheb Jadha staged rail roko at Thane railway station.
In Short
- Dalit party stages rail roko at Thane
- Protesters remained on tracks disrupting rail services
- Police officials have detained 5 members of the Dalit group
A day after the Maharashtra Bandh was called off by Dalit community leader Prakash Ambedkar, grandson of Late Dr B R Ambedkar, another fringe Dalit community group staged a rail roko at Thane railway station on Thursday afternoon.
Members from the Dalit youth panther party, who were in comparatively small number as compared to the protesting groups that protested on Tuesday and Wednesday across Mumbai, entered the Thane station at around 11:30 am.
Citing slogans against the ruling NDA government, the group headed by the party president Bhai Saheb Jadhav reached platform number 4 on Thane railway station and got down on the tracks while a local train headed towards Mumbai was about to arrive.
Railway Protection Force (RPF) officials along with railway police tried stopping the activists but they didn't budge and remained on tracks for around five minutes disrupting rail services towards Mumbai.
The rail roko went on for five minutes while the members of the party threatened that the protests would go on till prime suspects involved in inciting violence at Bhima Koregaon in Pune against Dalit community members were arrested.
Somehow, RPF and police officials managed to pull the protestors off the tracks after which train services resumed.
Police officials have detained five members of the protesting party and procedure for registering a case against them has been initiated.
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