Uttar Pradesh: This woman sets a bus on fire after the police prevented her from meeting with PM Modi, see video

Upset over not being able to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a Varanasi woman set a bus on fire. Vandana Raghuvanshi was trying to meet PM Modi when he was on his recent visit to his parliamentary constituency but she was stopped by the police.

The woman, who is the secretary of the Poorvanchal Jan Andolan Samiti, was arrested by the police. He was campaigning for a separate state of Purvanchal carving it out of Uttar Pradesh.

Raghuvanshi went to the Varanasi bus-stand and boarded a state-run Volvo bus 11 am on Wednesday. Then, she forced the passengers to get down, sprayed petrol in the bus and set it on fire. None of the passengers got harmed as they got off the bus before the flames.

By the time, the firefighters rushed to douse the flames, the bus had partially burnt. The woman also distributed pamphlets at the bus stand for a separate Purvanchal state.

She reportedly said that she has been trying to meet PM Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to demand a separate state of Purvanchal but she could not succeed. It was on Modi’s birthday that the woman against tried to meet him but was stopped by the police.

According to media reports, she has been on an indefinite hunger strike since August 15 for her demand of separate state. But after her condition worsened, she was forcefully fed.