The nationwide shutdown on Wednesday called by 10 Central Trade Unions (CTUs) to protest against the Centre's disinvestment policies and scrapping of NPR, CAA and NRC has failed to put any major impact in the state of Tripura as the vehicular movement across the state were normal with all business establishments and government offices remained open on Wednesday.
Government offices functioned almost normally and schools and other educational institutions also remained open with very less attendance today.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government has issued a circular asking all employees to attend offices normally otherwise action would be taken against them. The BJP has also organised bike rallies and processions to maintain normalcy. Huge contingent of security personnel were deployed all across Tripura.
Besides, flights operated to and from Agartala and the Northeast Frontier Railways (NFR) also operated their trains with passengers.
Meantime, some untoward incidents were reported from Kailashahar in Unakoti district of the state, where the police detained both the opposition CPI-M and ruling BJP supporters after they were allegedly engaged to a scuffle following the ‘bandh’.
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