India's News.Net Friday 6th June, 2008 (IANS) The day-long shutdown in Andhra Pradesh called by opposition parties to protest the steep hike in fuel prices affected normal life Friday, with transport services being paralysed and businesses forced to down shutters. The main opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) had called the state-wide strike. Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS), which is fighting for separate statehood to Telangana, also called for the shutdown in the region. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is holding a rail blockade to protest the hike. Protesters laid siege to bus stations and depots of the state-owned Andhra Pradesh Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) in all 23 districts early morning and did not allow the buses to come out. TRS...
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