Rail blockade in Lumding withdrawn after 90 minutes of agitation, trains running as per schedule

Senior official of Northeast Frontier Railway informs that the rail blockade staged by All Assam Bengali Parishad has been withdrawn and trains are running as scheduled. The official also asserts that a gathering of around 200 people was witnessed near Lumding Railway station and after 90 minutes of agitation the assembly segregated and the line was cleared. 

The All Assam Bengali Parishad staged the blockade in demand of conducting NRC verification process on the basis of the 15 documents instead of 10. They also raised slogans like ‘Hindustan is our motherland’. They fear that NRC will leave millions of people in no man’s land. The spokesperson of the Rail Rukh Andolan Committee accused the administration of racial discrimination and said the D Voter and Foreigners Tribunal cases are ways and means of harassing Bengalis living in Assam.

They also threatened that if the names of all the Bengalis left out of NRC draft are not included then they will call for a bigger and broader strike. The railway official informs that the agitation did not cause any damage to the Railway properties and there were no reports of any issue pertaining to law and order either.