The shutdown was total in Chhattisgarh, also ruled by the BJP though the state was peaceful, as well as Assam. However, the strike had no impact in the other northeastern states of Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh and Mizoram.
Although states like Tamil Nadu, Bihar and West Bengal were left largely untouched by the daylong strike call as was the Indian capital, there was sporadic trouble in Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Image: VHP activists afire a government bus in Lucknow on Thursday, during the BJP-VHP Bharat Bandh.
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