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Oil price hike: Shutdown begins
NEW DELHI: Life in many parts of the country disrupted on Monday with non-Congress political parties set to enforce a nationwide bandh against the increase in fuel prices. Several trains were halted in Bihar. The supporters and workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Janata Dal (United) and the Left parties stopped over a dozen long route trains at Patna, Gaya, Jehanabad, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur railway stations.
Schools, colleges, many private offices remained closed in Mumbai, but the city's lifeline - suburban trains and BEST - were partially affected as attempts were made to stop their operations in different parts, mainly by suspected Shiv Sena activists.Taxis and most autorickshaws remained off roads, more as a precautionary measure against damage from hooliganism than in support of the shutdown call.
In Pune, at least 12 public buses were torched by unknown activists and two buses were damaged in Nashik, a police officer said. Similarly, some trains like the Sinhagad Express, near Pune, and the Vidarbha Express near Amravati were stopped, a railway official said. Miscreants put some burning cardboards on the railway tracks near Thane while Shiv Sainiks stopped the suburban trains outside Borivli.
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NEW DELHI: Life in many parts of the country disrupted on Monday with non-Congress political parties set to enforce a nationwide bandh against the increase in fuel prices. Several trains were halted in Bihar. The supporters and workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Janata Dal (United) and the Left parties stopped over a dozen long route trains at Patna, Gaya, Jehanabad, Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur railway stations.
Schools, colleges, many private offices remained closed in Mumbai, but the city's lifeline - suburban trains and BEST - were partially affected as attempts were made to stop their operations in different parts, mainly by suspected Shiv Sena activists.Taxis and most autorickshaws remained off roads, more as a precautionary measure against damage from hooliganism than in support of the shutdown call.
In Pune, at least 12 public buses were torched by unknown activists and two buses were damaged in Nashik, a police officer said. Similarly, some trains like the Sinhagad Express, near Pune, and the Vidarbha Express near Amravati were stopped, a railway official said. Miscreants put some burning cardboards on the railway tracks near Thane while Shiv Sainiks stopped the suburban trains outside Borivli.
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