Train to Raj travels 160km in wrong direction, reaches MP

Around 1,500 farmers, who were headed for Kota in a special train, are now left stranded in Madhya Pradesh, after the train travelled 160km in the wrong direction.

The farmers, who had travelled to Delhi for a protest rally on Monday, had boarded the special train on Tuesday evening, and woke up around 6am to find their train at Banmore station, a few kilometres before Gwalior.

As per media reports, authorities have been unable to figure out what to do with the stranded farmers, some of whom were also headed for Maharashtra.

The farmers were returning after participating in Kisan Yatra protest rally in Delhi’s Jantar Mantar on Monday. For their return, they booked a train from Kolhapur in Maharashtra after paying ~39 lakh.

The train, carrying 1,494 farmers, including 200 women, left for Rajasthan on Tuesday evening.

A report in CNN-News 18 quoted a passenger S Madanaike as saying, “When we spoke to the driver, he said there was a wrong

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signal at the Mathura railway station which caused this goof up. It looks like we will only reach by Thursday morning.

“We had left Delhi at 10pm on Tuesday and woke up at 6am to find ourselves at Banmore railway

station in Madhya Pradesh. After Agra, we had to move towards Kota in Rajasthan. However, due to serious negligence of the railways, we are now in MP,” another passenger was quoted as saying in the report.