Maoists blew up the house of an RJD leader in Chatra district and schools in Palamau and Khunti district as the two-day Jharkhand shutdown called by the Naxalites entered the second day on Monday.

About 100 armed Naxalites surrounded the house of RJD's block president Chandrika Yadav at Chatra's Johri village Sunday night and asked the family members to vacate the house, Superintendent of Police Jatin Narwal told reporters here.