Certain pockets of the national capital were also affected by the bandh, despite heavy police deployment to ensure normalcy.
BJP workers tried to interrupt Delhi metro services causing severe halts and delays at Rajiv Chowk, Karol bagh and Patel Nagar stations on the Dwarka-Anand Vihar line.
Bus routes have been affected in West Delhi-parts of Janakpuri and Vikaspuri.
Protests marches are taking place in various parts of Cannaught place.
"The trains are running slow and halting between Karol bagh and Rajiv Chowk stations. It took me 40 minutes to reach Barakhamba metro station from Patel Nagar, said Ruchi Mishra, a passenger.
The police has been deployed on these busy stations. A police official said, "Three to four police personnel are manning metro stations to keep the protesters at bay."
Senior leaders from the Left parties also orgnaised a protest rally near ITO.
"The bandh has been a total success and our workers have succeeded in chakka jam at a number of places in the capital," a senior party leader of BJP told rediff.com. He hoped that the bandh would become more effective by noon.
"In Nangloi, the traffic has come to a halt and the protestors have disrupted the movement of the trains as they are squatting on the rail track. In Preet Vihar, we have received reports of a chakka jam. In R K Puram and Munirka there the bandh has hit normalcy. In the afternoon, party president Nitin Gadkari [ Images ] and Rajnath Singh would be addressing a public meeting in Chandni Chowk area," Srikant Sharma, BJP media convenor at the party headquarets, said. Srikant is currently media convenor at the party headquarters in Delhi.
Reports from Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Sonepat, Bahadhurgarh and Gurgoan said that the traffic movement had been affected.
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