The Statewide bandh called by Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress party to protest Saturday afternoon’s attack by Maoists on the Congress convoy at Darbha valley, about 35 kms from Sukma was total in the entire State on Sunday.
Streets in all towns and cities of the State remained completely deserted with people staying indoors while shopkeepers downed shutters to keep off receiving protestors' wrath. In Raipur, despite a slight change in the weather with a cloudy sky, streets wore a deserted look as people kept away from the streets in fear of any untoward incident following the call for bandh by the Congress party in the State.
In Raigarh, the supporters of slain State Congress Chief Nand Kumar Patel stopped trains in protest of the killings. A large number of Congress workers in Raigarh stormed the Raigarh Railway station while raising slogans and some lay in the tracks to stop movement of trains. The protestors reached the station while making all shopkeepers down shutters on the way. In Mahasamund town, the protestors went about closing shops while the Congress District President Mohit Dhruv said that there had been deterioration of law and order situation in the State.
A posse of security personnel was deployed by the district administration at the District BJP office to prevent protestors from ransacking the office. In Bhilai, the protestors staged a chakka jam and disrupted traffic for more than an hour at a national highway in Supela.Similarly at Dhamtari, the protestors disrupted rail traffic and made shopkeepers down shutters.
In Kanker again the protestors staged Chakka Jam at Jhalmala Chowk during the noon hours.In Rajnandgaon, streets had a deserted look as people kept off from venturing out even as protestors went about asking shopkeepers to down shutters.Elsewhere in the State, protestors held demonstrations and took out rallies in protest of the Saturday’s carnage by the Maoist insurgents.