The Vidarbha Sangram Samiti - an umbrella organisation including political leaders from the Congress and the BJP, has called a bandh in all 11 districts of Vidharbha today. The strike is meant to raise the pitch for their demand for a separate Vidarbha state.
Vidarbha Sangram Samiti workers stopped the Mumbai-Nagpur Vidarbha Express, 30 kilometres outside Amravati at about 6.30 this morning for over half an hour.
The Shiv Sena and the MNS are not participating as they are opposed to a separate Vidharbha.
So far agitations have been quite limited. Impact of the strike may similarly be limited but fearing violence many schools and colleges will be shut today.
Vidarbha Sangram Samiti workers stopped the Mumbai-Nagpur Vidarbha Express, 30 kilometres outside Amravati at about 6.30 this morning for over half an hour.
The Shiv Sena and the MNS are not participating as they are opposed to a separate Vidharbha.
So far agitations have been quite limited. Impact of the strike may similarly be limited but fearing violence many schools and colleges will be shut today.
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