The All Bodoland Territorial Council Minority Students' Union (ABMC), the All Assam Bhojpuri Students Forum and the Non-Tribal Protection Organisation were prominent among the groups that gave the bandh call.
The bandh had partial impact in Baksa, Kokrajhar and Bongaigaon districts, part of the Bodoland Territorial Administrative Districts, with activists forcing shopkeepers to down shutters, police said.
Stray incidents of violence were reported.
A school van was set ablaze by the ABMC in Baksa district during the 12-hour state wide bandh. None was injured, police said.
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The boys, aged 6 and 7 years, along with their mother were asked by the protesters to come out and the vehicle was torched even before the driver could step out, they said.
The driver however, was safe, they said adding, fire tenders doused the flame.
Local people protested against the attack on the van carrying small children, sources said.
Police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.
ABMC called the bandh to protest the killing of a 50-year- old man and injuring of four persons, including two women, by a group of armed NDFB-S at Sakuwaserfung in Bijni subdivision of Chirang district on January 18.
The All Assam Bhojpuri Students Forum has called a 36-hour bandh from 5 AM today protesting the killing of five Hindi- speaking people and injury to two others from Bihar the previous night when NDFB militants fired randomly at an inter-state bus at Kokrajhar.
The Non-Tribal Protection Organisation also called a state-wide 12-hour bandh today.