text: Disallowed an audience with PM Modi on his birthday, this woman set a Volvo bus on fire -Watch | India News
  Disallowed an audience with PM Modi on his birthday, this woman set a Volvo bus on fire -Watch
  Updated Sep 20, 2018 | 13:38 IST | Times Now Digital
  A woman from Varanasi set a bus on fire when she was stopped by the police from meeting Modi and Adityanath during the former's birthday. She had campaigned for a separate Purvanchal state carved out of UP.
  Varanasi: A woman from Varanasi who was upset over not being able to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his recent visit to his parliamentary constituency, set a bus on fire. Vandana Raghuvanshi, who was later arrested by the police, was campaigning for a separate state of Purvanchal carved out of Uttar Pradesh. Raghuvanshi, who is the secretary of the Poorvanchal Jan Andolan Samiti set a bus on fire when she was stopped by the police for not being able to meet PM Modi.
  Raghuvanshi went to the Varanasi bus-stand and boarded a state-run Volvo bus at 11 am Wednesday. She then asked the passengers to get down, sprinkled petrol in the bus and torched it, as per eyewitness accounts. None of the passengers were hurt as they got off the bus before the flames started.
  It took an hour and fifteen minutes for the firefighters to douse the flames –the bus had partially burnt by that time. Raghuvanshi even distributed pamphlets at the bus stand for a separate Purvanchal state.
  She said she has been trying for a long time to meet PM Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to demand a separate state of Purvancha but her efforts have been in vain. It was at Modi's birthday celebrations that the woman had tried to meet him but was reportedly stopped by the police. She has been on an indefinite hunger strike since August 15 to press for her demand. She was force-fed on August 29 after her condition worsened, according to the news agency IANS.
  She complained nobody including the media heard her pleas when she protested peacefully and decided to take to arson so that her message could reach Modi and Adityanath. Modi was in Varanasi for her 68th birthday on September 17.