Jharkhand Protest | Ranchi Students' Protest Enters 18th Day; BJP Bandh, ABVP Workers Detained

The BJP has called for a Jharkhand bandh on Tuesday to protest against "police atrocities" and lathi-charge on students agitating over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in the state. BJP state president Aditya Sahu said the bandh will be effective from 8 am till midnight on Tuesday. "It will be a state-wide bandh. All essential services, however, are excluded from the purview of the shutdown," Sahu told reporters at the party headquarters here. Several agitators and four policemen were injured during a clash near the Jharkhand assembly on Monday, as police used water cannons, tear gas and lathi-charged job aspirants protesting against alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations, officials said