Over a dozen NCR trains affected due to Agnipath protests

Prayagraj: The protest against the Agnipath scheme of the central government have also affected over a dozen of trains of North Central Railways (NCR), each going towards Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction and the one coming to Prayagraj Junction. Similar protests were also reported from three different locations under NCR.
Protests were reported from Birla Nagar railway station of Gwalior where a group of youths entered the station premises and indulged in vandalism which resulted in damaging the railway property.Protest was also held around six kilometres away from Aligarh Junction, but because of the presence of Railway Protection Force (RPF) along with Government Railway Police (GRP) and local police, the protest was controlled.
“A protest was also staged near the Fatehpur railway station on Thursday but prompt action by the RPF, GRP and local police contained the situation,” said chief Public Relation Officer (CPRO), NCR, Dr Shivam Sharma.
Meanwhile, IG, RPF (NCR), Ravindra Verma said, “We have deployed sufficient forces at all the stations and are keeping a strict vigil on the situation and ready to meet any protest.”
Although now the situation is under control, trains are running late by several hours. Meanwhile, Railway Protection Force (RPF) of North Central Railways (NCR) have taken preventive measures to meet any untoward incident resulting from protest on the issue. Earlier on the day, around a dozen trains had to be stopped at different stations as a preventive step. “As soon as we were informed about the disturbances, we halted a number of trains going towards Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junction as a preventive step,” said the CPRO.
Likewise, several trains coming to Prayagraj Junction from the neighbouring East Central Railway (ECR) are running late. For example, 12791, Danapur-Secundrabad express was running late by over one hour as the train was expected to arrive at 9:30 against its scheduled arrival time of 7:45pm.