Throwing their plans off the track, the Maharashtra administration on early Monday morning turned back the Delhi- bound special train from Bengaluru when most of the party workers were asleep.
In a well-planned move, three additional coaches with around 200 Maharashtra policemen were attached to the train reserved for BJP workers when it arrived at Daund station near Ahmednagar around 1.30 am.
The train was then taken to Sarola-Kasar station where an announcement was made by the Railways that it was being taken back to Bengaluru. Some of the occupants got suspicious when the announcement was repeated at Solapur station leading to heated arguments with police, but by then it was too late.
"It is true that we sent the train back as directed by the state Home Department and Railway officials," Ahmednagar Superintendent of Police Krishna Prakash told PTI."No untoward incident was reported and we safely sent them back to Bengaluru. We were just carrying out the orders," Prakash, who supervised the operation said.
A protest was organised today by the local BJP unit at Ahmednagar Collectorate where they shouted slogans against the Congress-led governments in the state and the centre. The protestors alleged there was a nexus between radical Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir and the Congress