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| VHP bandh hits normal life across . |
| Amarnath row: VHP bandh hits normal life across India
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| INDIA
, 13-August-2008
0:30:55 AM |
| Rail and road traffic across the country was badly hit on Wednesday as activists of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) blockaded roads and railway tracks to protest the cancellation of land transfer to the Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB).
In the national Capital, VHP activists began their protest at about 9 am, blocking roads in at least 20 places, including ITO, Moolchand, Dwarka, Pitampura and Deepali Chowk. However, the group had said on Tuesday that vehicles heading to schools and hospitals would not be stopped.
VHP general secretary Parveen Togadia said: "The central government must give the land to the Amarnath shrine board; otherwise our protest will continue."
In Chhattisgarh, protestors laid siege to dozens of busy squares in capital Raipur besides bringing traffic to a halt at Bilaspur, Jagdalpur, Durg, Bhilai, Korba and Raigarh towns.
Protestors armed with sticks and iron rods squatted on national highway No 43, connecting Raipur to the Bastar region, as well as the Raipur-Bilaspur highway.
South East Central Railway (SECR) officials said several trains were stuck at stations as activists of the VHP and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) squatted on tracks at Bilaspur, Raigarh, Raipur and Durg districts. Trains plying on the Mumbai-Howrah route were delayed the most.
Chhattisgarh VHP president Ramesh Modi asked people to come out of their houses and show their anger for "the insult caused to the Hindu community by cancellation of the allotment of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board".
VHP activists blockaded railway tracks in Uttar Pradesh as well.
Bhupendra Dhillon, public relations officer at the Railway Divisional Office in Agra, said: "The Shatabdi Express coming here from Delhi was delayed by 44 minutes as protestors detained it on the outskirts of the city."
Vishwa Hindu Parishad Uttar Pradesh secretary Raghvendra said that the Shatabdi Express had been detained at Rohta canal, 20 kms from Agra.
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