Student activists of the BJP today stopped trains, blocked the highways, burned tyres and forced shops to shut in Bihar as they protested against police action during a demonstration last week.
Since this morning, members of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) have stopped some trains in Patna and forced shops to shut in Aurangabad's markets. In Patna, 100-odd ABVP supporters were detained by the police after they damaged windscreens of some vehicles, burned tyres in the middle of the road, tried to attack police patrol cars and forced vehicles off the road at Dak Bangla Chowk, the city's main intersection. In the Patna University area, protestors made professors suspend classes and forcibly closed university offices and other educational institutions.
The police last week used batons, water cannons and tear gas on ABVP activists who marched to the state assembly to protest against the education policies of the state's Nitish Kumar government. A senior police officer also fired several rounds in the air from an automatic rifle. Several students were detained by the police.
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