Accordingly police in andhra pradesh arrested leaders of the Left parties and trade unions as they tried to stop state-owned buses and staged road blockade on wednesday as part of the nation-wide shutdown. Meanwhile protesters were arrested in vijayawada, guntur, Ongole, visakhapatnam, kadapa and other towns when they tried to stop buses of the Road Transport Corporation (RTC) from coming out of the depots.
Furthermore holding their respective party flags, leaders of Communist party of india (CPI), Communist party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), other Left parties and trade unions, who have called for the strike, squatted on the roads, raising slogans against the 'anti-people' and 'anti-worker' policies of the narendra modi government. Perhaps the protesters, including activists of Muslim and other minority groups, also demanded revocation of Citizenship (Amendment) Act and they raised slogans against National population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).
Moreover at visakhapatnam steel plant (VSP), striking employees along with leaders of trade unions and leaders of the Left parties staged a protest demonstration. Apparently trade unions claimed that 30,000 employees of the steel plant are taking part in 'Bharat bandh'. Reportedly the protesters raised slogans of 'POSCO go back'. They demanded that the government drop plans to privatise VSP in the guise of joint venture with the south Korean steel-maker POSCO and the leaders and activists of the Left parties tried to disrupt rtc services in vijayawada, guntur and Ongole.
