JAP bandh call evokes mixed response in Bhojpur

KumarRajiv Nayan

Ara: The Bhojpur bandh call given by the Jan Adhikar Party (JAP) to press its demand including grant of special status to Bihar and check on rising prices of essential commodities, and improvement in quality of education evoked mixed response in the district on July 7, 2018. The district administration had made security arrangements to maintain law andorder during the bandh.

The JAP activists led by their Bhojpur district president Brajesh Kumar Singh took out a procession that passed through the main thoroughfares of the town forcing the traders and businessmen to down their shutters. The bundh supporters blocked Ara -Patna, Ara-Sasaram, Ara -Mohania main roads, Ara station road, Tribhuani Kothi tri-juntion, Dharahara bridge, Zero Mile, Gangi road  paralysing the movement of vehicles since morning. They burnt tyres on road and raised slogans against the Union government. As a result almost all the business establishments, schools, colleges, petrol pumps, cinema halls remained closed. Attendance in government offices and courts was also thin.

JAP leader Brajesh Kumar Singh said that his party would be forced to intensify its agitation if the Union government does not grant special status to Bihar and check rising prices at the earliest.