A man was shot dead in police firing in Telangana's Secunderabad, trains went up in flames, and public and private vehicles were attacked, as railway stations and highways turned into battlegrounds in many states across India amid burgeoning protests against Agnipath.
One person died while several were injured as violent protests over the Central government's Agnipath scheme for recruitment in armed forces have now spread in almost 9 states across India. While normal services of over 340 trains have been affected, 12 were torched by protestors. Worse, to curb the violence, internet services across 12 districts of Bihar were suspended till June 19.
Massive protests have begun across different parts of India against the Agnipath Scheme. The protests have specially taken Bihar by storm. Watch this episode of Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
Ninety-four mail and express trains and 140 passenger trains have been cancelled due to the protests, while 65 mail and express and 30 passenger trains were partially cancelled.
The DMRC said in its tweets, which were updated frequently, that due to "security reasons" initially some gates of the ITO Metro Station and Dhansa Bus Stand Metro Station were closed. Later all gates of the Dhansa Bus Stand were closed briefly.
The officials said the Army has set its target of starting the training of new recruits under the Agnipath scheme by December.
A video, posted by news agency ANI, showed a group of kids crying after being stuck inside a bus, which came to a halt due to the blockade.
Protests intensified in Bihar too, where youths set fire to at least 20 coaches of Vikramshila Express and Sampark Kranti Express at Lakhisarai and Samastipur stations, and blocked traffic on highways in Buxar, Bhgalpur and Samastipur.
Agnipath Scheme Protest: Massive protests have erupted in different states over the Modi government's new military recruitment policy Agnipath.
The Centre on Tuesday unveiled the ambitious scheme for recruitment of the youth aged between 17 and a half and 21 in the Army, Navy and the Air Force, largely on a four-year short-term contractual basis.
The Hyderabad MP tweeted a video of Haryana police firing in the air at a protest against the Agnipath scheme and wrote that the Centre should neither identify these protesters by their clothes nor should use bulldozers against them.
Agnipath Scheme Protest: The government is being surrounded for many years on the issue of unemployment, today for the first time it has happened that the government is on target on the issue of providing employment. The government is claiming to give call letters to 46 thousand Agniveers in 90 days, but the country is on fire. Today, in the discussion on this issue in Kurukshetra, know what is the game behind the scenes in Agneepath and the fire incident? #AgnipathSchemeProtest #AgnipathScheme #kurukshetra #BiharProtest #Agnipath #ProtestInBihar #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme #PMModiScheme #Hindi #IndianArmy #ModiScheme #narendramodi
The news of bumper recruitment in the army came as a good news, but today the pictures that came from all over the country are disturbing the color. Similar pictures are coming from Bihar one district after another.. UP, Rajasthan, Haryana, Himachal and all those states from where many youth dream of serving the country were seen burning the property of the country today. See the discussion on the confusion and solution in the competition.#AgnipathSchemeProtest #Muqabla #AgnipathScheme #BiharProtest #Agnipath #ProtestInBihar #AgnipathRecruitmentScheme #PMModiScheme #Hindi
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