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This story is from June 17, 2022

Anti-Agnipath mob ransacks BJP office in Bihar, set bogies on fire

ADG (law and order) Sanjay Singh said those indulging in vandalism and damaging public property would be identified through video footage and penalised. He suggested these job-seekers could face a “grim future” in terms of employability.
Anti-Agnipath mob ransacks BJP office in Bihar, set bogies on fire
Security personnel at the spot on Thursday in Bihar’s Chhapra where youngsters set a train on fire in protest against the Agnipath scheme. (PTI)
Bihar was hit by anti-Agnipath protests on Thursday. A mob ransacked a BJP office in Madhubani. Bogies of at least three trains at Bhabhua, Chhapra and Gopalganj were torched. Windows of another 12 trains were damaged by stone-pelters in different districts. Two cops, including an SI, and a train passenger were injured in relentless stone-pelting for two hours at Bhabua railway station.
“We prepared for years to get into the armed forces, only to be told that the guaranteed period of employment will be for four years. We want the old recruitment process restored,” said Pushkar Kushawaha, among a group of men squatting on a rail track at Motihari. “What will we do after four years? The government has said th at only 25% of the recruited people will continue for another 15 years under permanent commission,” said Rakesh Kumar, a native of Alouli village protesting at Khagaria railway station.

ADG (law and order) Sanjay Singh said those indulging in vandalism and damaging public property would be identified through video footage and penalised. He suggested these job-seekers could face a “grim future” in terms of employability.
Internet and text messaging suspended for 24 hours and Section 144 clamped in Haryana’s Palwal after protesters pelted police with stones and set fire to vehicles, triggering a baton-charge. At least 14 of the protesters were arrested. “We are checking videos uploaded on social media and CCTV cameras to identify those who indulged in violence,” said SP Mukesh Malhotra.
Two special investigation teams were formed to look into the violence.


In western UP, hundreds of vehicles and commuters were stranded on the Agra-Delhi highway for nearly two hours after protesters blocked it from both sides near Raipura Jat village in Mathura. A state-run bus passing by Agra's Bah was pelted with stones. The police baton-charged protesters and detained several for blocking the city's MG Road for almost an hour.
Aligarh saw groups of stick-wielding youth hit the Delhi-Gabhana road. Protesters also jammed roads in the Khurja region of Bulandshahr and Meerut districts in the morning.
Hours before PM Narendra Modi's roadshow in HP's Dharamshala, protesters blocked the Pathankot-Mandi highway in Gagaal town of Kangra district. The commotion lasted for several hours as the group raised slogans against the PM and tore posters featuring BJP functionaries. As the protesters marched towards Dharamshala, there was a brief scuffle with the police before several of them were detained.
Hundreds of youth under the banner of Youth Congress held protests at Gandhi Chowk in Hamirpur. They burnt effigies of PM Modi and Himachal CM Jai Ram Thakur.
Protests also broke out across Congress-governed Rajasthan, with the police using force to disperse mobs.
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