Title - Protesters train guns at Congress MP

Abohar: The delay in making the Sriganganagar-Hanumangarh broad gauge rail link operational has triggered a stir beginning with a dharna by the members of the Railway Passengers Association and Daily Commuters Association at Sadulshehar, 30 km from here today.The action committee has also launched a signature campaign to condemn Lok Sabha Congress member Bharat Ram Meghwal who had been repeatedly claiming that he had spoken to the Railway Minister and senior railway officials to run the trains soon. Some members of the Railway Consumers Consultative Committee too had been making “false” claims, the protesters added.The protesters said that Divisional Railway Manager Manju Gupta had clearly stated that the Chief Railway Safety (CRS) Officer based at Mumbai will inspect the track after completion of underbridges but the MP and his associates keep on misleading the people.The action committee members found that construction of an under-bridge on Budharwali-Kaluwala stretch was in limbo as a wall of the underbridge near Banwala had collapsed. As per schedule, rail services were to be resumed on the Sriganganagar-Hanumangarh section after gauge conversion work by March this year but it has been delayed.In an official release, Meghwal today blamed senior railway officials for the piquant situation and promised to send his representative to Mumbai on October 5 to fix the date for CRS’s visit for inspection.