According to police sources, after the special 23-carriage train chartered by the BJP was stopped, the engine of the train was changed and the train was sent in the reverse direction towards Bangalore. At the time of the swift action by the police in the early hours of the morning at 3 A.M., several of the BJP workers were asleep and were unaware of the police action.

A senior police official speaking to Arab News said that stopping the train and reversing it back was a joint operation by the local police, Central Reserve Police Force and the Railway police. During the operation, all the lights in the train were switched off; thereafter the engine in the front was removed and put in the rear direction. Two additional carriages were attached to the train with 1500 policemen and the train was cleared to move towards Bangalore.

Meanwhile, after some time, at 5 in the morning, the BJP workers came to know the police action at Solapur railway station, creating chaos and shouting slogans, they pulled the chain of the train and stopped it at Nagansur station on the Maharashtra-Karnataka border, which led to the disruption in the running of two express trains.

According to the Solapur police, two thousand BJP workers from Tumkur, Dharwad, Bangalore, Bidar, Gulburga Bagalkot, Bijapur and some other districts of Karnataka, were heading towards Srinagar to participate in the BJP rally in Jammu under the leadership of Karnataka State BJP Youth Wing President Sunil Kumar. Heavy police deployment was put in place in Solapur after the BJP workers tried to create trouble at the railway station. The police then forced all the BJP workers to board the train again after which the train moved again in the direction of Bangalore. BJP legislator from Solapur Sridamappa Patil who visited the railway station condemned the state government for the police action