New Delhi: AICC office bearers, Congress MPs and CWC members will stage a Satyagraha at Jantar Mantar here on Sunday in solidarity with youth protesting against the Agniveer scheme. AICC interim Supremo Sonia Gandhi demanded the Government to roll back the Agnipath scheme.

Violent protests continued unabated across eight states, with angry youth taking to the streets, burning vehicles and damaging public property, including railway bogies, at Danapur in Patna district and Jehanabad in Bihar, while normal life was affected in Buxar and Gaya.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi roll back of the Agnipath scheme, APP MP Raghav Chadha wrote to Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, calling for a similar step and re-deliberation over the new recruitment move. Amidst these announcements, the procession and protests continued across the country.

RJD supported 24 hour bandh by the All India Students’ Association (AISA) has been called across the State in protest against the Agnipath scheme. A mob blocked a highway in UP Jaunpur where the angry youth torched a UPSRTC bus. The UP police has registered six FIRs in four districts and arrested 260 protestors so far.

Several hundred youths gathered at Thampanoor, in the heart of Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, before marching to the Raj Bhavan while raising slogans against the Centre.