If you travel second class and if you are a photographer like me who documents beggars than you will find a lot of beggars on the train going to Ajmer Sharif for the Urus .. but beware it will be packed too and you can do nothing about it ,,the TC never comes this end to check your tickets so most of the people are ticketless ..going to Ajmer is their spiritual right and a lot of guys will be smoking hash , bullying other passengers that I fine for these youth the Ajmer trip is only a pastime and for fun.
Nobody dare argue with them or you get beaten by these ruffians and once these guys mostly from Mumai bullied a passenger without realizing he was a soldier in mufti and he called up his friends from the next compartment and when the train reached the next station they came and beat up the ruffians black and blue .
Beggars live on trains this is their workspace , and they earn handsomely as those going to Ajmer fill their beggars bowl.
But Indian Railways have no proper management for the pilgrims and are totally unprepared for the rush and they dont care about the pilgrims , be it Ajmer or any other pilgrims site .
It was worst during the Mahakumbh too the chaos the stampede and the neglect ,,I sincerely hope our erstwhile Railway Minister Mr Suresh Prabhu pays attention to this and the hijra menace on UP bound trains were the hijras extort money from passengers humiliate them and beat them too and there is a HIjra Beggar mafia working on Indian trains in collusion with railway personnel even the Railway cops are scared of the Hijras .. than sadly most of our cops are like Hijras too ..extorting money fr getting people seats and they do it openly..in Mumbai or even in Lucknow .
