Jamshedpur (PTI): Train services of South Eastern Railway (SER) between Kharagpur and Rourkela was hit by the day-long rail and road roko agitation by Joint Adivasi Action Committee.

Howrah-bound Ispat Express and Durg-bound Tata-Danapur South Bihar Express were detained at Chakradharpur and Sonua as hundreds of activists of Jharkhand Disom Party (JDP), a JAAC constituent, squatted on the track at Lotapahar, SER sources said.

The Kharagpur-Tata passenger was detained at Chakulia station as blockade supporters blocked the railway track since Sundaymorning, the sources said.

Railway officials rushed to the spot to persuade the agitators to lift the blockade.

JAAC had proposed an indefinite economic blockade in Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand from today to press for its demands but deferred it for month.

Instead it called for a day-long rail and road roko demanding enlisting of over 70 lakh Adivasis in Assam and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the schedule tribe category, CBI inquiry into the November 24 attack on Adivasis at Dispur, alleged apartheid approach of the government, displacement of Adivasis on the pretext of development etc.

Hundreds of slogan shouting JDP activists sporting black badges took out a large procession in tribal-dominated Karandih, Matladih, Somaijhopri, Haludboni and Parsudih here. Life in urban areas was unaffected.

A large number of JDP activists were rounded up at Baharagora in Ghatsila while enforcing the blockade on the national highway. A similar road blockade was also organised between Chakradharpur-Sonua in West Singhbhum district, JAAC chief convenor Salkhan Murmu said.

Murmu claimed JDP supporters had put up rail and road blocks in other parts of Jharkhand as well as Bengal and Assam.