tirunelveli the oneday bandh jointly organized by trade unions and public transport carriers in kerala affected interstate transport at kaliyakkavilai in kanyakumari district and sengottai in tirunelveli district on wednesday the bandh was to protest against the steadily escalating price of petrol and dieselstudents and working people who travel from nagercoil and marthandam areas to thiruvananthapuram every day were among the worsthit usually 88 government buses ply from kanyakumari and nagercoil to thiruvananthapuram and viceversa making 264 round trips every day more than 40 buses operated by kerala state road transport corporation ksrtc did not operate from the early hours of the day the remaining buses operated by the tamil nadu state transport corporation tnstc from kanyakumari and nagercoil to thiruvananthapuram stopped at kaliyakkavilaithe strike coupled with the tnstc ticket fare hike reflected at railway stations which witnessed a mad rush commuters unaware of the strike in kerala who were heading to neyyattinkara balaramapuram and thiruvananthapuram got down at kaliyakkavilai and boarded trains to the destinations from parassala onwards normalcy returned around 6 pm when the strike came to an end however only a few services were operated based on the passenger movement early in the morning some longdistance buses from chennai to thiruvananthapuram hesitantly made their way into kerala as only some of them crossed kaliyakkavilai to reach the destination before the strike commenced at 6 amtnstc and state express transport corporation buses from tirunelveli to alappuzha thrissur guruvayoor ernakulam and other destinations in kerala stopped operations at the interstate border at punalur near sengottaia few trucks and goods carrier vans carrying vegetables flowers and fish from tirunelveli and tuticorin entered kerala before dawn before commencement of the strike however lorries that could not make it before 6 am waited at piranoor border sengottai and puliyarai till the bandh came to an end