Special Indian railway train carrying 1500 farmers travels 160 km in wrong direction

It is not every day that you wake up feeling kidnapped, but a group of Indian farmers felt this way recently with the help of Indian Railway. Around 1500 Indian farmers travelling from Delhi to Mahrashtra in a train woke up shocked to learn that the train was in fact moving in the wrong direction.
The farmers who were in Delhi taking part in a protest rally travelled almost 160 km in the wrong direction, and claimed that the train was not following its route. They were supposedly on their way to Maharashtra via Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, but instead the train supposedly entered Madhya Pradesh. The farmers upon realising the grave mistake stopped the train and got down at a station called Banmore in Madhya Pradesh and began to protest. The special train’s reservation was done for the farmers who are members of All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee.


The recent train derailment incidents in India have caused worry among Indian railway travellers, and the farmers feared that an untoward incident may occur due to the wrong route.
In a statement, the chartered railway firm said, "Special trains are run through a route which is conveniently available to the railway operation. The passengers might have felt confused because of the different route used in their return journey. There was no negligence and diversion."