Youths stop Mumbai-Gondia Vidarbha Express to demand separate Vidharbha

A group of youths today stopped the Mumbai-Gondia Vidharbha Express near the Ajni railway station demanding separate statehood for Vidharbha, official sources said.

The group, shouting pro-Vidharbha slogans halted the down train this morning  delaying it for 20 minutes, before it reached Nagpur and proceeded to Gondia, a spokesman of Central Railway, Nagpur division said.

They belong to a little known youth organisation and fled the scene before police arrived there, sources said.