Jalpaiguri (WB): Train services were affected as members of the All Kamtapur Students’ Union (AKSU) blocked the railway tracks in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district on Friday morning to press for their demand for a separate state.
The blockade at the Betgara station in the New Jalpaiguri-New Bongaigaon section of the Northeast Frontier Railway began at 7 am, officials said.
The blockade has disrupted train services on the all-important route. Among the trains affected were the New Jalpaiguri-Guwahati Vande Bharat Express, they said.
Officers of the RPF and the state police were talking to the protestors, and trying to persuade them to remove the blockade, they added.
