Tension prevailed at Madurai railway junction on Tuesday forenoon when Southern Railway Mazdoor Union members gheraoed Divisional Railway Manager Sunil Kumar Garg and restricted him within the Station Manager’s chamber.
Railway sources said that the members were agitated when the DRM along with other railway officials came to the railway station to remove posters and hoardings put up by railway unions on the railway premises on the indefinite strike proposed from July 11.
As the word on the drive planned by the DRM spread, the railwaymen started gheraoing him. The officials took Mr. Garg into the Station Manager’s chamber. However, over 150 workers laid siege to the chamber and did not allow the DRM to come out for nearly 40 minutes.
Later, Railway Protection Force personnel brought him out of the chamber to the DRM’s office. The workers raised slogans against him.
On Friday, the DRM instructed officials to remove the hoardings put up without permission. However, the instruction was not carried out, the railway sources said.
