By IANS,
Agartala : A Left-sponsored protest against hiked diesel prices and FDI in multi-brand retail trade crippled life in Marxist-ruled Tripura Thursday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party also called for a strike on the same issues.
“The strike is total and successful with people from all walks of life expressing their anger against the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government’s anti-people economic decisions,” CPI-M state secretary Bijon Dhar told reporters here.
Most markets, businesses, offices, educational institutions and banks were closed. Train services between Tripura and the rest of India were disrupted. Public vehicles went off the roads.
Buses plying between Tripura and Bangladesh and other northeastern states were also hit.
But flights on the Agartala-Kolkata, Agartala-Guwahati and Agartala-New Delhi routes were normal, an Agartala airport official said.