A bandh sponsored by the Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu to protest against the Union government’s failure to form a Cauvery management board began on Thursday.
Since last week, protests, fasts and demonstrations are being held in the State against the Centre’s failure to set up a Cauvery board. The Opposition alleges that the AIADMK government in Tamil Nadu has failed to exert pressure on the Central government to constitute a board.
Police in Madurai city had to push a bus carrying protesters as it had trouble starting.
Opposition political party members stage a road roko at Gandhi Road in Kancheepuram on Thursday.
Vegetable shops remain closed at Rajaji Market in Kancheepuram.
The onion market remains closed in Tiruchi.
The windscreen of a TNSTC bus was damaged after miscreants pelted stones at it near Kalaimadu Silai in Erode on Thursday.
Members of the DMK and Congress, VCK stage a rail roko in Madurai.
Shops were closed at Kasukadai bazaar in Ramanathapuram on Thursday.
Opposition party cadres damage the windscreen of a bus in Dindigul.
Protestors block a train at Tirunelveli railway junction on Thursday condemning the failure of the Centre to constitute the Cauvery Management Board (CMB) as per the Supreme Court’s direction.