The attendant told me that the compartment has a fixed number of blankets, which had been allotted to passengers.
Suvarna Raj suffers from 90 percent disability because a polio infection that she contracted at a young age.
Speaking to ANI, Railway's Director General Public Relations Anil Saxena said that the Train Ticket Examiner of the Garibhrath Express immediately tried to help her when she raised the issue. The journey takes 12 hours.
While the Ministry of Railways is busy working on projects like E5 series Japanese Shinkansen high-speed trains equipped with western toilets with hot water and washrooms with triple mirrors for make-up, worldwide medal-winning para-athlete Suvarna Raj was forced to sleep on the floor of a train after being allotted an upper berth seat. "If we do not get a response from him in the next two days, we will protest outside his house and the ministry", she said. Coming out in support of Ms Raj, para-athlete Shweta Sharma said that travelling with disability was a herculean task. In the end, Raj, her son and a friend had to sleep on the floor during the overnight journey.
To Suvarna's misery, none of the fellow passengers entertained her repeated requests and denied her the lower berth despite her evident physical disability.
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"Usually people sympathise and exchange their seats, but this time they refused".
Suvarna Raj also said that she want to meet Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu and tell him about the problems they have to face while travelling in trains. "I really don't know why, but I was very taken aback", she said.
The para-athlete has been decorated with couple of medals at Thailand Para Table Tennis 2013 and is the flag bearer of para table tennis for India at global events.
Replying to the ANI tweet, Mr Prabhu posted a statement from his official account: In response, Ms Raj tweeted, "I don't want any inquiry, I want permanent solution for persons with disabilities".
'I want to highlight that thousands of passengers like me face such problems daily'.
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