New Delhi, 17/7: Protests against the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme for the Armed forces spread from Bihar and Jharkhand to Odisha and West Bengal on Friday, with unhappy job aspirants coming out in large numbers torching and stopping trains and disrupting services across the eastern region.
Besides targeting railway properties, the protestors attacked the house of Deputy Chief Minister Renu Devi and the car of a BJP MLA in Bihar. State BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal’s residence in Bettiah town was also vandalised but the leader claimed the attackers were not job aspirants.
In West Bengal, the protestors attempted to march towards the residence of BJP MP and Union minister Shantanu Thakur while a mob demonstrated in a cantonment area in Odisha