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Agnipath scheme protest: Railway station vandalised, empty train set on fire in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia district

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Raising slogans 'Bharat Mata ki Jai' and 'Agnipath Vapas Lo', youths protesting against the Centre's new scheme to recruit soldiers on Friday set an empty train on fire and vandalised a few other trains here, prompting the police to lathicharge them. Police sources said that the protesters gathered at the Veeri Lork Stadium here and then marched to the Ballia railway station.