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| Bharat bandh affects normal life |
| Bharat bandh affects normal life across the country
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| INDIA
, 5-July-2010
2:58:56 AM |
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Normal life was hit in NDA and Left-ruled states on Monday as rail, air and bus services were disrupted during a bandh called against fuel price hike while stray incidents of violence occurred in Maharashtra and Karnataka where BJP workers pelted stones at buses.
Senior BJP leaders Arun Jaitley and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi were arrested in Lucknow while trying to lead a procession towards the main Hazratganj crossing. BJP workers claimed that a number of party activists and leaders were injured when police baton-charged the protestors.
In NDA-ruled Bihar, Punjab and Karnataka, life was thrown out of gear with agitators stopping trains and buses.
Schools, colleges and business establishments remained closed as groups of protestors hit streets trying to enforce the 12-hour bandh.
In West Bengal and Kerala, air, rail and road services were disrupted. Only Air India flights operated out of NSC Bose International Airport in Kolkata as streets wore a deserted look in the eastern metropolis where CITU gave the strike call
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