By MD Mesha

NEW DELHI: At least one person has been killed and dozens of others wounded as violent protest continues across India for a third consecutive day against the Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

According to local media, protesters also set three trains on fire and attacked ruling party BJP leaders’ houses and officials’ buildings in several states. 

On Friday, thousands of protesters attacked railway stations and officials’ buildings in Telangana, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, West Bengal, and Madhya Pradesh.

“Protestors are demonstrating on railway tracks and have halted all train movement for the last three hours. Security forces are outnumbered as the railway station has been overrun by angry youth, who have already set three trains on fire,” NDTV reported.

Protesters also vandalized the railway stations in several states and authorities canceled over 200 trains across the country as protesters blocked the railway tracks. 

So far the protesters were set on fire the East Coast Express, Rajkot Express, and Ajanta Express  while 71 trains - 65 from Hyderabad Multi-Modal Transport System and six express - have been cancelled so far, the report said.

In Behar, the protesters attacked on a house of the Deputy Chief Minister and set on fire his home. 

"Such type of violence is very dangerous" the Deputy CM said. 

Young Indian protesting against the PM Modi's new Agnipath (“path of fire”) scheme and called it “RSS goons recruitment scheme.”

Under the new scheme, PM Modi reportedly planning to adjust RSS goons in the army and provide an opportunity to train them for future unknown strategies.

On Wednesday, the Indian Vice Army Chief said that they will recruit initially over 40,000 young people between the ages of 17 to 21 in the next six months.

These people will recruit for four years. The announcement spread anger among the young people who were waiting to join the army and secure their future. 

However, the protesters accused PM Modi to paved the way for its party workers to train in the army and blocking other young people to get jobs in the military. 

The new scheme was launched after the appointment of Lt Gen Manoj Pande as Army Chief by PM Modi.

Gen. Pande is a RSS-influenced officer who was promoted to the highest position in the Indian Army despite defeat at LAC at hands of the Chinese.

RSS is a Hindu extremist organization influenced by Nazism while BJP is a political wing of the organization which is currently ruling in India.

Analysts believed Gen. Pande could strengthen the existing saffronization of the Indian Army. 

Former Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukund Naravane who retired in April was hailing from Maharashtra the birthplace of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Keshav Baliram Hedgewar considered the pioneer of RSS. On the other hand, the newly appointed Chief has family roots in Nagpur headquarters of RSS.

Over 250 million Muslims in India also expressed deep concerns and said the real agenda is to have a loose army of saffron Hindutva driven RSS goons who can be used against Muslims and minorities whenever needed rather than using the regular army troops. 

Prominent Indian Muslim leader Asaduddin Owaisi said BJP wants to train these people to inflict violence into the Hindutva cauldron.

“Without the required planning, the only effect of the Tour of Duty model...is letting loose of hordes of young men trained to inflict violence into the Hindutva cauldron,” Owaisi wrote on Twitter.

He added that in recent violence In Jharkhand, 15 people were shot, 2 Muslim children martyred, while 6 bullets hit one's body.

“what is happening after all [in India],” he questioned.