The bandh (general shut down strike) call given by Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) on July 1 failed to evoke any response in the Andhra-Odisha Border (AOB) region, reports The Times of India. Reportedly, the bandh call was given to protest the killing of six of its cadres in an exchange of fire with the Greyhounds, the elite anti-Naxal [Left Wing Extremism, LWE] force of Andhra Pradesh Police, at Theegalametta in the Visakhapatnam Agency area in Visakhapatnam District on June 16, 2021.