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Indian railway stations on fire as protests against military hiring plan intensify

Guardian, 20 Jun 2022
Protesters in India’s eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding that the government reverse course. One person was killed and more than a dozen have been injured in a series of protests against the new scheme in regions such as Chennai and Secunderabad. 
The Agnipath scheme was designed to bring more people into the military on four-year contracts to lower the average age of India’s 1.38 million-strong armed forces
Thousands ransack railway station as protests intensify over India’s military hiring plan
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