Normal life was disrupted in Deogarh on Monday due to a Bandh observed by the Congress demanding fulfilment of a six-point charter of demands, including release of input subsidy to farmers, appointment of doctors in Government hospitals and teachers in Deogarh College.
While shops and Government offices remained closed, vehicular movement came to a grinding halt as party activists blocked roads putting burning tyres. Consequently, plying of vehicles on NH-49 was paralysed.Police took 5 Congress activists, including Deogarh District Congress president Sem Hembram into preventive custody. Criticizing the move of police, Congress leaders said that the agitation would be intensified in future in order to fulfill the demands.