The bandh call evoked a partial response in Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam while it evoked a mixed response in Kadapa, Kurnool, Srikakulam, Karimnagar and Krishna districts.
Police took into custody several protesters including CPI(M) State Secretary B V Raghavulu, CPI State Secretary K Narayana, leaders of TDP among others at several places in Hyderabad after they held demonstrations terming the UPA government's decisions on reforms on diesel, LPG and FDI in retail as "anti-people".
Bus services were affected with APSRTC plying less number of buses though trains were running normally in the city and other districts, officials said.
Educational institutions, shops and business establishments remained closed in many locations of the city and across Andhra Pradesh in view of the bandh call.
Elaborate security arrangements were made to maintain law and order and police also made preventive arrests in Kadapa, Karimnagar and Krishna districts.
In Vishakapatnam, agitators tried to obstruct RTC buses at Gajuwaka, Maddilapalem, Kurmannapalem and other depots in the city.
Though the bandh was peaceful, police detained 20 protesters for disrupting vehicular movement and organising road blockades in various places in the city. (MORE)