A train from Delhi called Swabhimani Express is said to have traveled on the wrong route for over 160 km, landing in Madhya Pradesh instead of Maharashtra, reported CNN-News18.
The special train that was carrying 2,500 farmers of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee protesting in Delhi on 20 November, were returning home after the protests. The train that left from Delhi’s Safdarjung railway station on the night of 20 November was supposed to reach Kolahapur on the evening of 21 November.
Mahavir Patil, one of the passengers on the train, said that there was just one guard on the train. The farmers who were stuck at the Banmor railway station in Madhya Pradesh started protesting at the station, some of them alleging a conspiracy behind the train taking the wrong route.
Savakar Mandanaike, another farmer traveling on the train, told CNN-News18 that the driver did not realise he had taken the wrong route until they got down at the station and informed him.
With the station master’s help at Banmor station, the train has started traveling back in the correct direction and will now reach Kolhapur on the morning of 22 November.
(With inputs from CNN-News18)
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