The Bharat Bandh against fuel prices hike by Congress, CPI(M), SUCI and several other organisations here was successful on Monday.
The activists in the early morning held a Rail Roko at the Brahmapur railway station while they burnt tyres at various locations and held road blockades. They gave slogans against the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre and the BJD Government and took out a bike rally across the town too. SUCI chief Somonath Behera led a demonstration at the Main Post Office.
All schools, colleges, petrol pumps, shops, business establishments and cinema halls were closed. However, no untoward incident was reported. Force deployments were made in prime locations of the town. Trinath Behera, Deepak Patnaik, Pitabas Panda, Biswajit Patro from Congress, Basant Nanda, Kalu Panda from CPI(M) were present.