BJP workers damage railway station in Madhya Pradesh

BHOPAL - The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) workers Friday tried to set a train on fire and damaged property at Jabalpur railway station in Madhya Pradesh, alleging the city’s interests were overlooked in the railway budget.

The violent workers were protesting extension of Jabalpur-Mumbai Garib Rath up to Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh and Jabalpur not getting a railway division status.

Government Railway Police (GRP) baton charged the workers to disperse them.

Later, more than a hundred protesters, led by BJP MP from Jabalpur Rakesh Singh, courted arrests against the move to extend Garib Rath’s run to Allahabad.