Train ops suspended over fog farmers protest

Agra | Thursday | 13th December, 2018

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The DRM said that the decision to stop the train had been made by the railway board.Chahar said, “Thousands of poor people, including farmers, labourers and villagers regularly travel on the DMU train, which operates between Agra and Bharatpur. “The train has been cancelled for now, but all possible efforts will be made to get permission of the board for its limited operation,” he said. They proposed that three to four protesters be sent to meet higher authorities, which the agitators didn’t agree to. Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS) Agra region president Mohan Singh Chahar, along with a BKS leader Anil Saraswat, handed over a memorandum to the DRM, demanding that orders to stop the DMU train be revoked. Agra: Several farmers and labourers staged a protest at the office of divisional railways manager (DRM), demanding that the diesel multiple unit (DMU) 71950 train between Idgha station, Agra and Bharatpur continue to ply, after the Agra division railways on Thursday stopped it’s operations for the next two months owing to fog..