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Aaj ki baat, aaj ki baat, rajat sharma, agnipath scheme, defence recruitment scheme, protests, Nationwide protests, trains set ablaze,

At least four trains are set on fire, two in Bihar, one in Uttar Pradesh and one in Telangana

New Delhi/Secunderabad, June 17 (PTI): One person was killed in police firing in Secunderabad, the first casualty of protests against the Agnipath defence recruitment scheme that raged through several states for the third day on Friday with trains torched, public property vandalised and many thousands blocking tracks and highways. At least 200 trains were affected, 35 cancelled and 13 short-terminated, railway officials said. As angry crowds, some armed with brickbats and stones, fanned out across large parts of India, from Uttar Pradesh to Telangana and Bihar to Madhya Pradesh, Union Home Min...

The protesters demanded that the government scrap the recently announced scheme and continue the existing system of recruitment.

Bihar BJP president Sanjay Jaiswal's residence in Bettiah town was vandalised on Friday during protests against the Agnipath army recruitment scheme, the second such incident of attack on senior party leaders' houses in the state during the day.