Kolkata, Aug 26 - Train services were disrupted in West Bengal's Howrah division Wednesday after youth activists of the Communist Party of India-Marxist's (CPI-M) vandalised the Srirampur station venting their ire against Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) activists, who were distributing leaflets and pasting posters against Banerjee, alleged that the railways was being used to serve the 'interests' of her Trinamool Congress party. The protesters even squatted on the railway tracks when some officials tried to stop them.

A railway spokesman said that Narayan Chandra Das, the station master on duty, requested the agitators not to distribute the leaflets in the station as it was dirtying the premises, but he was assaulted and his office was ransacked.

'The protestors (DYFI activists) stopped train movement. They also assaulted Das and the assistant station master and ransacked the station office, breaking two windows, the telephone, chairs and table,' the spokesman said.

As a result, train services on Howrah-Bandel, Howrah-Bardhaman main line and Tarakeshwar-Seoraphuli sections were disrupted for about two hours.

DYFI state secretary Abhas Roychowdhury, however, alleged that the station master had tried to obstruct their political programme.