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Ranchi: The Kendriya Sarna Samiti (KSS) and the Adivasi Sengal Abhiyan (ASA) on Sunday organised rail and road blockades at several locations across the state to demand a separate religious code for the tribals of Sarna faith ahead of the upcoming census. In Ranchi, KSS president Phoolchand Tirkey said they demonstrated briefly on the tracks at Hazaribag and Kita stations (between Ranchi and Muri railway stations) in the afternoon. Officials of the Ranchi railway division said the blockade at Kita railway station lasted 10 minutes and no passenger or goods trains were affected. “Sunday’s symbolic rail roko and chakka jam were successful. If the Centre does not recognize a separate Sarna code before the census process gets underway, then the tribal people across the country will organise a massive agitation which will be bigger than the ongoing farmers’ agitation at Dekhi border,” Tirkey claimed. ....