Hajipur (Bihar): Train services came to a standstill in North Bihar on July 15 following a 12-hour Hajipur bandh called by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Vaishali unit to protest Trinamool Congress' opposition to create East Central Railways zone by bifurcating Eastern Railway.

Rail traffic on Gorakhpur-Hajipur-Muzaffarpur and Hajipur-Muzaffarpur sections was totally disrupted as bandh supporters sat on the tracks near Hajipur station, Railway sources said.

The activists also tampered with the Railway tracks near the spot to enforce the bandh, the sources said.

Shops and major business establishments downed shutters, educational institutions remained closed and vehicular traffic remained thin in the North Bihar town, official sources said.

Bus services on Patna- Muzaffarpur national highway was stalled as BJP activists put up blockades and smashed window-panes of a few of them, they said.

A procession headed by Hajipur MLA and BJP leader Nityanand Rai was taken out in the town, they added.

PTI