Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) workers on Tuesday blocked roads and forced several trains to stop during a strike in Uttar Pradesh against the hike in fuel prices.
The Sampark Kranti, Kisan Express, Budelkhand Express, Dejeradun Janata Express, Howrah-bound Chambal Express were among the long-distance trains forced to stop as SP workers squatted on the tracks.
Stray violence was reported from some places when protestors tried to close shops and commercial establishments.
Some shops were damaged in a shopping mall in Kanpur while SP workers beat up a senior transport department official in Basti. Angry transport department employees struck work and demanded the arrest of the assailants.
SP workers also blocked roads at several places in the state. Thousands of SP workers blocked traffic on the busy Grand Trunk road and the Lucknow Highway in Allahabad.
Long queues of vehicles were seen on the roads as flag-waving SP workers shouted anti-Central government slogans and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and AICC President Sonia Gandhi at several places, they said.
In the state capital, SP workers enforced closure of shops and business establishments in the busy business district of Hazratganj.
Party workers also took out processions in different parts of the city and blocked traffic at some places creating traffic jams for hours.
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