India, Aug. 11 -- The BJP has called for a Jharkhand bandh on Tuesday, August 11, to protest against "police atrocities" and lathi-charge on students agitating over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in the state.

BJP state president Aditya Sahu said the bandh will be effective from 8 am till midnight on Tuesday.

"It will be a state-wide bandh. All essential services, however, are excluded from the purview of the shutdown," Sahu told reporters at the party headquarters here.

Several agitators and four policemen were injured during a clash near the Jharkhand assembly on Monday, as police used water cannons, tear gas and lathi-charged job aspirants protesting against alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations, off...