Hundreds of youth, mostly students, protested against the Centre's move to privatize trains, stations and production units of Indian Railways. With placards and banners in their hands, protesters raised slogans against the privatization of the railway at Sasaram railway station in Rohtas district of Bihar. The protesting youths forcibly stopped the trains for more than four hours. Some angry protesters also entered the stage and offices at the station.
For your information, Let us tell you that they stop privatizing the railway, the railways belong to the public, stop selling railways like slogans. He has threatened to intensify his protest by intensifying demonstrations at all railway stations of the state in the coming days. This is the first such youth protest against privatization of railways in Bihar, the NDA government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started privatizing many public sector undertakings.
In their statement, the protesters said that we will not sit silent anymore. We will protest against the privatization of railways, as it will destroy our hope of government jobs. He said, Modi government is bent on privatizing the railways to serve the interests of some rich people at the cost of thousands of poor. Indian Railways has been the largest provider of government jobs to the youth. If it is privatized, then nothing will be left for us. We will not allow the Modi government to privatize railways. According to district police officials, protests at the railway station have disrupted train services and hundreds of passengers were stranded at various railway stations on the Mughalsarai-Gaya route.
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