Guwahati (PTI): Normal life was partially hit in parts of Assam on Friday during a 24-hour Assam Bandh called by the All Adivasi Students' Association of Assam (AASAA), official sources said.

Long distance buses and trains passing through tea garden areas of upper Assam, populated by adivasis, were suspended even as schools, colleges, financial institutions and other commercial institutions were open.

In lower Assam districts of Kokrajhar, Chirang and Bongaigaon, state and central offices remained closed with thin attendence in the local administration offices.

Educational Institutions, banks and markets were closed and long-distance and inter-district buses remained stranded on the National Highway since the beginning of the bandh from 5 am.

Trains services, however, operated as usual in the three districts, the sources said.

There was no report of any violence from any part of the affected districts, the sources said.

The bandh has been called to protest against the arrest of AASAA vice president Russel Kujur on January 29 for his alleged links with the militant outfit Adivasi National Liberation Army (ANLA).

The bandh failed to evoke any response in other parts of the state.