After lawyers, now the Keonjhar Yuva Parishad has served an ultimatum to the railway authorities to stage a dharna on rail tracks from March 15 indefinitely in case the authorities fail to run the Bhubaneswar-Keonjhar passenger daily train and convert the running of Visakhapatnam-Tata train from weekly to daily basis.Parishad convenor Barada Prasana Das said that on Thursday, members of the Yuva Parishad met the Keonjhar railway station Manager and handed over the memorandum to him addressed to the DRMs of East Coast Railway, Bhubaneswar and South Eastern Railway, Kolkata. Das alleged that the railway is collecting huge amounts of revenue from the Joda-Barbil mining sector of Keonjhar and hundreds of goods trains are running through Keonjhar, but the railway has no provisions for movement of common people of the district who are facing a lot hardship for the negligence on the part of the railway authorities.
All sections of people, irrespective of their political affiliations, have extended their full support for the proposed Rail Roko agitation of the Keonjhar Yuva Parishad.
