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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Curfew relaxed till evening in Gorakhpur</b>
PTI | Gorakhpur
Barring stray incidents of burning of effigies of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in rural areas and some districts of eastern UP, the situation was by and large peaceful and curfew relaxed in all the four areas of the city till evening today.
Curfew was relaxed from 9 am to 6 pm as bus services in the state resumed after a gap of eight days. Buses to Mau, Azamgarh and Varanasi started plying. Regional Manager of Uttar Pradesh transport Ramjit Verma said that a full-fledged service would start in a couple of days.
Commercial establishments and government offices have started functioning.
Incidents of burning effigy of the CM were reported from adjoining districts of Deoria, Basti, Kushinagar and Siddharthanagar.
Meanwhile local BJP leaders and sadhus have started relay fast in Gorakhnath Mandir campus here to press for their demand for early release of the jailed BJP MP Yogi Adityanath. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Feb 2:
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Gorakhpur tense, arsonists attack trains</b>
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Gorakhpur and its adjoining areas in eastern Uttar Pradesh remained tense but under control on Thursday. Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal, after visiting Gorakhpur, said additional paramilitary forces would be rushed to the region to maintain peace.
A PTI report late Thursday night said <b>suspected</b> Hindu Yuva Vahini activists set ablaze three compartments of two trains, one of them near Gorakhpur, to protest the arrest of BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath. Police sources said the activists set on fire two coaches of Mumbai-Gorakhpur Godan Express at Mohammadabad railway station, about 300 km from Lucknow.
(Though the PTI report can only <i>suspect</i> that they were HYV activists, it could just as well be that they were goons in service of the UP government which is trying to fan the situation's flames further. In fact, it's more likely that they were, considering how the UP govt has been going about the events in Gorakhpur, with an eye on sparking communalism to get islamic votes.)
No loss of life was reported although some passengers sustained minor injuries while they were trying to jump out of the compartments, sources said. The burning compartments were detached from the train and fire tenders reached the spot, sources said.
In another incident, the activists set afire a train compartment near a goods yard at the Naugarh Railway Station in Siddharthnagar district near Gorakhpur. "The <b>goods train compartment had been lying abandoned in the yard for a long time and there was no casualty,</b>" District Police chief Ramit Sharma told PTI.
Ten persons were arrested for torching two state roadways buses at Nichlaul in Maharajganj district on Wednesday night. Reports said that the buses were torched at the Nichlaul depot by activists of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and the trouble-makers included two roadways staff.
(Abandoned goods trains seem more likely targets of Hindus.
And the buses were torched at night time and are reported as being at a depot, I think that means they were not running at the time and therefore not carrying passengers.)
As many as 68 passenger trains to and from Gorakhpur have been cancelled after an arson attempt on 213 up Gorakhpur-Gonda passenger train at Tulsipur in Balrampur on Wednesday. Long-distance mail and express trains were being run with GRP escort as a precautionary measure, the sources said.
(No indication of who suspected arsonists were for this event.)
Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from different districts of eastern UP, as security forces staged a flag march in curfew-bound areas. Reports said that in Dumariyaganj, the Siddharth Nagar block development office (BDO) office was set on fire by arsonists. However, the Home Department officials claimed that a short circuit was the reason behind the fire at the BDO office.
The situation in Padrauna, where curfew was imposed on Tuesday evening following violence in the wake of arrest of local BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, remained tense, reports reaching here said.
In Ballia, BJP workers forced closure of shops and other establishment during a bandh to protest arrest of party MP Adityanath and other leaders.
Sinha said that the decision to relax curfew would be taken by the administration after assessing the situation. He said that in order to provide relief to people in curfew- affected areas, foodgrains and milk were distributed with the help of police and security forces.
Sinha said that so far 350 people had been arrested in connection with the clashes. Eight others have been arrested in connection with the murder of Raj Kumar Agrahari.
Meanwhile, the State Government on Thursday sent a report to the Centre on the violence in Gorakhpur and adjoining areas on January 30, State Home Secretary AK Sinha told mediapersons in Lucknow.
A supplementary report would be submitted to the Centre in the next few days, he added. Educational institutions have been closed till February 3 in view of the tense situation in the city.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Curfew relaxed till evening in Gorakhpur</b>
PTI | Gorakhpur
Barring stray incidents of burning of effigies of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav in rural areas and some districts of eastern UP, the situation was by and large peaceful and curfew relaxed in all the four areas of the city till evening today.
Curfew was relaxed from 9 am to 6 pm as bus services in the state resumed after a gap of eight days. Buses to Mau, Azamgarh and Varanasi started plying. Regional Manager of Uttar Pradesh transport Ramjit Verma said that a full-fledged service would start in a couple of days.
Commercial establishments and government offices have started functioning.
Incidents of burning effigy of the CM were reported from adjoining districts of Deoria, Basti, Kushinagar and Siddharthanagar.
Meanwhile local BJP leaders and sadhus have started relay fast in Gorakhnath Mandir campus here to press for their demand for early release of the jailed BJP MP Yogi Adityanath. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Feb 2:
http://www.dailypioneer.com/displayit1.asp...page/story4.txt
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Gorakhpur tense, arsonists attack trains</b>
Pioneer News Service | Lucknow
Gorakhpur and its adjoining areas in eastern Uttar Pradesh remained tense but under control on Thursday. Union Minister of State for Home Sriprakash Jaiswal, after visiting Gorakhpur, said additional paramilitary forces would be rushed to the region to maintain peace.
A PTI report late Thursday night said <b>suspected</b> Hindu Yuva Vahini activists set ablaze three compartments of two trains, one of them near Gorakhpur, to protest the arrest of BJP MP from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath. Police sources said the activists set on fire two coaches of Mumbai-Gorakhpur Godan Express at Mohammadabad railway station, about 300 km from Lucknow.
(Though the PTI report can only <i>suspect</i> that they were HYV activists, it could just as well be that they were goons in service of the UP government which is trying to fan the situation's flames further. In fact, it's more likely that they were, considering how the UP govt has been going about the events in Gorakhpur, with an eye on sparking communalism to get islamic votes.)
No loss of life was reported although some passengers sustained minor injuries while they were trying to jump out of the compartments, sources said. The burning compartments were detached from the train and fire tenders reached the spot, sources said.
In another incident, the activists set afire a train compartment near a goods yard at the Naugarh Railway Station in Siddharthnagar district near Gorakhpur. "The <b>goods train compartment had been lying abandoned in the yard for a long time and there was no casualty,</b>" District Police chief Ramit Sharma told PTI.
Ten persons were arrested for torching two state roadways buses at Nichlaul in Maharajganj district on Wednesday night. Reports said that the buses were torched at the Nichlaul depot by activists of the Hindu Yuva Vahini and the trouble-makers included two roadways staff.
(Abandoned goods trains seem more likely targets of Hindus.
And the buses were torched at night time and are reported as being at a depot, I think that means they were not running at the time and therefore not carrying passengers.)
As many as 68 passenger trains to and from Gorakhpur have been cancelled after an arson attempt on 213 up Gorakhpur-Gonda passenger train at Tulsipur in Balrampur on Wednesday. Long-distance mail and express trains were being run with GRP escort as a precautionary measure, the sources said.
(No indication of who suspected arsonists were for this event.)
Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from different districts of eastern UP, as security forces staged a flag march in curfew-bound areas. Reports said that in Dumariyaganj, the Siddharth Nagar block development office (BDO) office was set on fire by arsonists. However, the Home Department officials claimed that a short circuit was the reason behind the fire at the BDO office.
The situation in Padrauna, where curfew was imposed on Tuesday evening following violence in the wake of arrest of local BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, remained tense, reports reaching here said.
In Ballia, BJP workers forced closure of shops and other establishment during a bandh to protest arrest of party MP Adityanath and other leaders.
Sinha said that the decision to relax curfew would be taken by the administration after assessing the situation. He said that in order to provide relief to people in curfew- affected areas, foodgrains and milk were distributed with the help of police and security forces.
Sinha said that so far 350 people had been arrested in connection with the clashes. Eight others have been arrested in connection with the murder of Raj Kumar Agrahari.
Meanwhile, the State Government on Thursday sent a report to the Centre on the violence in Gorakhpur and adjoining areas on January 30, State Home Secretary AK Sinha told mediapersons in Lucknow.
A supplementary report would be submitted to the Centre in the next few days, he added. Educational institutions have been closed till February 3 in view of the tense situation in the city.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->