Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar spoke for many by tweeting, ‘Today’s bandh proves that the political solution to any problem is at least as bad as the problem.’

Ratty Miller had this to say: ‘India, where it is illegal for a customer to stop a train, but not for a protester to stop and burn them down.’ Ashwin Mushran had a question: ‘Has the BJP shut online stores? I guess not. They would have to know how to use computers and live in the modern world.’ Akhilesh Mishra had another point of view: ‘If you think a bandh for a day by the BJP is wrong, what do you say to a permanent Bharat Bandh by the Congress? Q4 GDP growth is lowest in a decade.’ And from Sorabh Pant: ‘It’s kind of ironic that some people’s reaction to a rise in prices of fossil fuels is to behave like stone pelting Neanderthals.’