The New Delhi-Ranchi Rajdhani special train carried a single passenger to Ranchi in the early hours of Friday, hours after all the other passengers had left the train, when she was stranded for several hours at Daltonganj station due to a sit-in. of protest. on the slopes — in favor of a bus trip to the destination city.
The student refused to get off the stranded train at Daltonganj train station and board a bus to Ranchi, like any other passenger on the train, and instead chose to arrive at Ranchi several hours later once the train was allowed. resume your journey via a different route.
About 900 passengers on the Rajdhani Special train bound for Ranchi were stranded at Daltonganj station for several hours on Thursday after a continuous uproar by the Tana Bhagat community at Tori train station in the Latehar district of Jharkhand. .
All the passengers, except the woman, were eventually sent to the state capital in buses organized by the Palamu district administration. The woman stood still on the stranded train.
Railroad officials and civilians said the passenger, Ananya, who was riding in the B-3 car, refused to leave the train and board one of the buses arranged to continue the journey.
One official said: “She told us that she would not take a bus in any case. If you wanted to travel by bus, why would you have booked a train ticket?
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Finally, the authorities relented and let her continue her journey on the empty train that was diverting to Ranchi by another route. In addition, they deployed personnel from the Railway Protection Force (RPF) and some female bailiffs to accompany her.
The train eventually reached Ranchi via Gaya, Gomo and Bokaro, covering 535 km instead of the 308 km it would have traveled on its scheduled Barkakana route, blocked by protesters.
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However, Dhanbad Senior Divisional Business Manager (DCM) AK Pandey denied that the train was diverted at the insistence of the single passenger.
In a statement, Pandey said: “For purely technical reasons, the Rajdhani express was allowed to reach Ranchi via GAYA-GMO-BKSC. And the operation of empty rakes through the diverted route has nothing to do with the demand of any passenger ”.
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