Title - Train passengers inconvenienced

Jalandhar:
Thousands of train passengers were stranded at the city and cantonment railway stations following the disruption of the Amritsar-Delhi railway line at Ludhiana, Phillaur, Phagwara, Beas and Amritsar by members of different Sikh organisations.Elderly passengers, children and patients were the worst affected, as they were stuck at the railway stations for nearly four hours.The traffic was restored only after the Shiromani Gurdwara Prabandhak Committee (SGCP) chief Avtar Singh Makkar appealed to the agitators to clear the tracks to facilitate the passengers stranded in the train and at the railway stations.To lodge their protest against the acquittal of senior Congress leader Sajjan Kumar involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots at Delhi, scores of Sikh protesters disrupted traffic on the busy Amritsar-Delhi railway line.Several trains, including the Delhi-bound Amritsar-Delhi Shatabdi, Madras Mail, Howrah Mail, Amritsar-Delhi Superfast, Garib Rath, were stranded at Phillaur.