The ruling Maha Vikas Aghadi parties Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress are undertaking a day-long bandh on Monday in Maharashtra to protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri killings in Uttar Pradesh. The suburban local trains of Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, however, have been exempted, as the essential services are directly dependent on them. The Government Railway
Shops will remain shut across Maharashtra today as the Maha Vikas Aghadi or MVA government has called a bandh in solidarity with farmers in Uttar Pradesh, a week after eight people died in violence in UP's Lakhimpur Kheri during a farmers' protest.
"The BJP-led central government has allowed the loot of agriculture produce through the three newly-enacted farm laws and now the kin of its minister is killing farmers. We have to show solidarity with the cultivators," NCP spokesman and state minister Nawab Malik said.
Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) that comprises Congress, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has called for a statewide bandh today in protest against the Lakhimpur Kheri incident that claimed the lives of eight people including four farmers.