Thousands held during Jharkhand shutdown

Thousands held during Jharkhand shutdown

IANSUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 03:24 PM IST
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Ranchi : Thousands of people, including 10 lawmakers, were arrested in Jharkhand on Saturday and a few incidents of arson were reported during a shutdown called by opposition party JMM against the state government’s domicile policy.

“A total of 8924 people, including nine MLAs and one Lok Sabha MP of JMM Vijay Hansda, were arrested during the shutdown. It was by and large peaceful barring a few incidents,” a police official told IANS.

Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) described the shutdown as successful.

“Raghubar Das government adopted repressive measures and detained many people on Friday night. Despite government crackdown the shutdown was successful. The shops were closed and long distance buses did not ply,” Supriyo Bhattacharya, JMM general secretary, told reporters. The protesters burnt a bus in Jamshedpur and a mini truck was torched in Bokaro. Three people were injured when protesters threw a petrol bomb on a truck on the Ranchi-Jamshedpur national highway.  The shutdown affected normal life in Jharkhand. Shops, schools and colleges were closed. The buses did not ply and the protesters tried to disrupt train services at a few places. The state government made heavy security arrangements to prevent any untoward incident.

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