Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is against the bandh and had warned government employees from remaining absent, said attendance at the state secretariat, Writers' Buildings, was 100 per cent. Finance Minister Amit Mitra said that his department also registered 100 per cent attendance. Many government employees stayed overnight in their offices.

Bandh supporters took out processions in some areas. Commissioner of Kolkata Police Surajit Karpurakayastha was on the roads in the morning to review security. "Everything is normal. There is enough police," he said.

Trains services in the Howrah and Sealdah divisions of Eastern Railway remained more or less normal, though there was some disruption in Sealdah South due to squatting by strike supporters in the morning, railway sources. Metro Rail services in the metropolis was normal as also flights at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.