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Agitating Gujjars on Monday laid siege of all the entry points to the capital, blocked roads and resorted to violence in some parts in their bid to enforce a day-long call for shutdown to demand Scheduled Tribe status in Rajasthan.

Officegoers and commuters had a tough time reaching their destinations as Gujjars enforced the shutdown.

However, shops and business establishments were open across the capital, barring Gujjar-dominated areas, including Chilla and Dallupura villages in east Delhi and some south Delhi localities bordering Faridabad in Haryana.

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Agitating Gujjar groups blocked key roads linking the capital to Panipat, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida and Ghaziabad leading traffic jams at all the state entry points. The Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road was the worst affected as stick-wielding protestors attacked passenger buses and burnt tires, blocking the road.There were reports of police firing in the air to disperse the protestors.

Two Delhi Transport Corporation buses were torched in Aya Nagar area in Mehrauli. Buses were also damaged in Khajoori Khaz in northeast and at Patparganj in east Delhi.In north Delhi, angry protestors set on fire a passenger bus, pelted stones and blocked roads at the Wazirabad crossing leading to huge traffic snarls.Security has been beefed up at roads along the Delhi border with neighbouring states and capital-bound vehicles were being diverted to alternate routes.

Trucks carrying vegetables and other essential supplies were unable to reach the Ghazipur Wholesale market abutting the Uttar Pradesh border in Ghaziabad, where policemen were deployed in large numbers to maintain law and order.About 500 Gujjar prostestors gathered at the Ghazipur Chowk blocking the National Highway 24 connecting the capital with Ghaziabad and Lucknow.

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