Rail services were disrupted on Saturday on the Jammu-Pathankot route as ABVP activists stopped a train at the Kathua railway station in protest against recent clashes in Kishtwar district.
Demanding sacking of the minister of state for home, Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo over the Kishtwar incident, ABVP activists blocked the railway tracks and raised anti-government slogans, police said.
The Ahmedabad-bound train from Jammu was stopped for a brief period by the activists at the Kathua station. However, rail services were restored when the protesters left the spot. Several political parties, including BJP, have blamed Kitchloo for the clashes between the two communities and demanded a high-level probe by an independent authority.
Meanwhile, VHP condemned the communal violence in Kishtwar and asked the Centre to take immediate steps in this regard, otherwise it would have far reaching repercussions. 'The killing of five jawans by militants along the LoC is a well-planned conspiracy and the terrorists were responsible for the communal clashes in Kishtwar yesterday,' said VHP spokesperson Prakash Sharma. Clashes between two communities left two people dead and at least 20 injured on Friday.