The Bharat Bandh called by the Congress protesting against the unprecedented rise in fuel prices affected normal life across Subarnapur district on Monday.
Vehicular movement was badly affected as the Congress activists blocked the National Highways at several places of the district in support of the bandh.
Vehicular movement came to a grinding halt in all the six blocks of the district as Congress leaders and workers resorted to road blockades at various important junctions and staged bike rallies, shouting slogans against the BJP-led NDA Government for the stiff fuel price rises. Auto rickshaws and two wheelers were off the roads in Sonepur town.
Among others, DCC president Shankar Dash, Sonepur Constituency Youth Congress president Sumit Pujhari, Town Congress president Sudhir Panda, general secretary Barun Suna, PCC member Jitendra Pattnayak,Tripurari Satpathy, Subrat Satpathy, besides over 100 activists, were present in Sonepur.