In Lucknow, Samajwadi Party and BJP workers staged demonstrations and stopped trains at a number of places in Uttar Pradesh in support of the bandh, but most of these protests were photo-ops meant for mediapersons.
Protestors stopped trains in Mathura, Agra, Varanasi, Allahabad and Lucknow as part of their stir while BJP workers and traders blocked the Agra-Gwalior Highway by burning tyres.
Major markets remained closed at a number of places in UP, including Lucknow.
Raising slogans against FDI in retail, a group of workers held a demonstration outside the Walmart store at Sultanpur road in Lucknow.
Several prominent schools remained closed as a precautionary measure in the city.
