Mumbai: Local train services on Central line affected as Congress workers demonstrate over farmers protest

Mumbai local train services on Central line were affected on Thursday after the Youth Congress workers protested over farmers' agitation in Madhya Pradesh.

Congress workers staged a rail roko at Ghatkopar station. Several party workers jumped on the tracks and halted trains.

Trains were running 15 to 20 minutes late. Police have taken 22 protestors into the custody.

Earlier in the day, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi was detained by the police while he was on his way to Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur district to meet the families of the deceased farmers.

"Prime Minister Narendra Modi neither waives off the farmers? loans nor does he provide bonus. He just gives bullets," Gandhi told the media.