Good response to Bhojpur bandh

PATNA, NOV. 25. The dawn-to-dusk Bhojpur district bandh, called by the BJP to protest against police firing at Itwa on November 18 in which a Dalit youth was killed, passed off peacefully today evoking good response as the Opposition leader in the Bihar Assembly, Mr. S.K. Modi, announced to undertake a two-day fast from tomorrow against the firing.

Mr. Modi, his party's MLAs, Ashwini Choubey and Sukhda Pande, who have launched an indefinite sit-in at Itwa in Bhojpur district since Tuesday to protest against the firing and demand immediate action against guilty policemen, gave the Bhojpur bandh call. All major shops and business establishments downed their shutters and vehicular traffic was off the road in Bhojpur.

Private operators also suspended their bus services from Ara to different places including Patna. Official sources said that no untoward incident were reported during the bandh from anywhere in the district though the BJP alleged that the RJD goons attacked BJP and the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthy Parishad activists at several places in which ABVP's Ara town secretary, Mr. Premranjan, was injured. Mr. Premranjan was admitted to the Patna Medical College Hospital for treatment.

- PTI

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