Normal life was thrown out of gear in several parts of the Capital on Monday as agitating Gurjars blocked all entry points to Delhi and torched several government buses.
   Protesters blocked several key roads linking the Capital to adjoining Panipat, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida, and Ghaziabad in their bid to enforce their day-long call for bundh triggering  traffic jams at all the state entry points in the morning.
   The Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road was the worst hit as stick-wielding protesters attacked city buses and burnt tyres.
   There were reports of police using tear-gas shells and firing in the air to disperse the protesters in Ghitorni area bordering Gurgaon in Haryana. Clashes with police also took place in Badarpur.
   Six DTC buses were torched in Aya Nagar, Jasola, Dera, Usmanpur and Wazirabad, while some buses were damaged in Khajoori Khas in Northeast Delhi and at Patparganj in East Delhi, police said.
   Scores of angry protesters blocked the major arterial roads at Ghazipur crossing, Wazirabad, Anand Vihar, Badarpur, Mehrauli, Githorni, Khajoori Khas, Kalindi Kunj and Mayur Vihar by burning tyres, leading to huge traffic snarls.
   Security was beefed up at roads along the Delhi border with neighbouring states and Capital-bound vehicles were being diverted to alternative routes.
   National Highway-24 that  links the Capital to Ghaziabad and Lucknow was closed for traffic and a posse of policemen kept vigil at the Ghazipur Chowk, where hundreds of Gurjars blocked traffic.
   Trucks carrying vegetables and other essential supplies were unable to reach the Ghazipur wholesale market abutting the Uttar Pradesh border in east Delhi. On the Noida Link Road near Mayur Vihar, about 100 protesters threw burning bicycles on the road leading to long traffic snarls. The road was opened for traffic around 11 am.
   The Delhi Police made elaborate security arrangements and deployed virtually the entire force of over 50,000, along with about 2,000 central para-military personnel, on the roads to maintain law and order.
   Later in the day the community leaders decided to withdraw their agitation.