Kurmi community leaders have threatened to resume their indefinite rail blockade agitation from September 20 demanding the inclusion of their community on the list of Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Kurmali language in the eighth schedule of the Constitution.
“Our community leaders will stage simultaneous rail blockade at strategic stations across Jharkhand, Bengal and Odisha. Talks are also being planned to stage agitation at Assam from September 20 onwards. We will not withdraw our agitation anymore until Union home minister Amit Shah assures of taking up our cause in the proper forum. We will also withdraw if the Centre announces to raise our demands in the ongoing special session of Parliament,” said central president of the Totemic (a Kurmi clan) Kurmi Vikash Morcha, Sheetal Ohdar while addressing media at a Ranchi hotel on Monday.
