Development of railway land: Cong MLA shifts protest venue

CONGRESS MLA Ambarish Der, who’s on a starvation strike demanding improvement of a railway land in Rajula, shifted his camp to Rajula Railway Junction in Barbatana village close to Rajula city in Amreli on Sunday.
Der, the Congress MLA from Rajula, had gone on a flash starvation strike on Tuesday after he was detained by police for allegedly making an attempt to stop staff of Bhavnagar division of Western Railway from pitching pegs marking railway land close to agricultural produce market committee in Rajula city.
He had alleged that underneath stress of native BJP leaders, the officers of the Bhavnagar divisional railway weren’t finishing formalities of authorising Rajula municipality to beautify 41,000 sq. metre of railway land mendacity unused within the coronary heart of the city. However, the problem couldn’t be resolved and Der continued to take a seat on quick close to the Rajula APMC until Saturday night.
On Sunday, Der shifted his camp to Rajula Railway Junction. “What else can I do? I observed fast in Rajula town but the issue could not be resolved. Therefore, I had no option but to sit on fast at the railway junction as my fight is for getting railway land for public purpose. If the railway authorities do not pay heed to our demands, we shall be forced to launch a rail-roko agitation,” Der instructed The Indian Express.
The MLA was joined by Rajula municipality president Ghanshyam Lakhnotra, vice-president Dipak Raycha, Congress’s Rajula city unit president Amit Joshi within the starvation strike on Sunday.