Shops and business establishments around the city also remained closed amid protests from BJP and other political parties, including CPI(M).
The BJP, led by Rajya Sabha MP, J P Nadda, and Avinash Rai Khanna took out a protest march in the city against the hike in fuel prices raising slogans against the Congress-led UPA government.
Earlier, BJP state president Shamsher Singh Manhas carried out a protest rally in the city riding on a horse-cart.
Manhas said if the fuel prices continued to increase like this, the day is not far when people will have to depend upon cycles and other traditional modes for conveyance.
Nadda alleged that the Congress-led UPA was working in an anti-democratic fashion and had no respect for the institutions of this country.
"It is very sad that the Parliament is being insulted. The budget session of 2012 is sine-die on May 22 and on the evening of May 23, this anti democratic government led by UPA raises the prices of petrol, knowing that people are already reeling under the serious inflation," Nadda pointed.
Meanwhile, CPI(M) activists also registered a protest against the hike in fuel prices and alleged that in last three years UPA government has raised the petrol prices for a record 18 times. They also said that that around 48 per cent tax was imposed on fuel.
Shiv Sena and Socialist Democratic Party workers also raised their concern about the unprecedented hike and urged for an immediate roll-back of the prices.
The bandh also had its effect of the other districts of the region with BJP protestors burning the effigy of UPA government in Kathua, however, the traffic movement on the national highway remained unaffected.
