KOKRAJHAR: The entire northeast remained cut off from the rest of the country due to a 36-hour road and railway blockade called by the All Koch Rajbongshi Students' Union(AKRSU) beginning Thursday at Gossaigaon and Sagaliya inter-state border in Kokrajhar and Dhubri districts.
Train services came to a virtual halt in lower Assam during the day as about 2,000 AKRSU supporters staged a blockade on railway tracks near Salakati station.
NFR officials said the picketers were removed from the tracks and services resumed late in the afternoon. Railway authorities either regulated or controlled all movement of trains in various stations of West Bengal and Assam. Services of more than 10 passenger trains, including the Rajdhani Express, were affected.
About 1,000 AKRSU supporters blocked NH-31 C at Gossai-gaon and more than 2000 others stopped traffic at Sagaliay Inter-state gate, Golokganj, in Dhubri district, preventing movement of Assam-bound vehicles from West Bengal on both NH 31 C and NH 37.
Since a number of important highways in Assam like NH-31 C and 37 cut through Koch-Rajbongshi dominated areas, the blockade also choked the state's supply routes.
Although the district administration of Kokrajhar led by SP PK Dutta tried to thwart rail blockade, the union led by Biswajit Roy is firm on enforcing it till Friday evening. AKRSU president Biswajit Roy said the state government was engaged in a conspiracy to eliminating the community from Assam.
Read more: AKRSU blockade cuts off northeast - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/AKRSU-blockade-cuts-off-northeast/articleshow/7375271.cms#ixzz1COhDvFtP
Train services came to a virtual halt in lower Assam during the day as about 2,000 AKRSU supporters staged a blockade on railway tracks near Salakati station.
NFR officials said the picketers were removed from the tracks and services resumed late in the afternoon. Railway authorities either regulated or controlled all movement of trains in various stations of West Bengal and Assam. Services of more than 10 passenger trains, including the Rajdhani Express, were affected.
About 1,000 AKRSU supporters blocked NH-31 C at Gossai-gaon and more than 2000 others stopped traffic at Sagaliay Inter-state gate, Golokganj, in Dhubri district, preventing movement of Assam-bound vehicles from West Bengal on both NH 31 C and NH 37.
Since a number of important highways in Assam like NH-31 C and 37 cut through Koch-Rajbongshi dominated areas, the blockade also choked the state's supply routes.
Although the district administration of Kokrajhar led by SP PK Dutta tried to thwart rail blockade, the union led by Biswajit Roy is firm on enforcing it till Friday evening. AKRSU president Biswajit Roy said the state government was engaged in a conspiracy to eliminating the community from Assam.
Read more: AKRSU blockade cuts off northeast - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/guwahati/AKRSU-blockade-cuts-off-northeast/articleshow/7375271.cms#ixzz1COhDvFtP
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