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Bihar leaders Ram Vilas Paswan and Lalu Prasad were detained here on Monday while demonstrating during the daylong shutdown called by the opposition against the killing of three people in police firing in Madhubani town last week. Both Lok Janshakti Party chief Paswan and Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad were detained at the Dak Bungalow Crossing in the city along with hundreds of their party leaders and supporters, police said.The Lok Janshakti Party chief demanded that the Nitish Kumar-led government be dismissed for being unable to check the collapse of law and order situation in the state.Main opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad also raised slogans against the state government before police took him away.Trains were blocked and trucks and buses remained off the roads in Bihar as the daylong shutdown came into effect on Monday.Workers of opposition parties blocked railway tracks and forcibly stopped trains at various stations to enforce the shutdown against the police firing in Madhubani on Monday that also left over a dozen people injured. Trucks and buses too remained off the road in the state, police said.The parties supporting the state-wide shutdown include the RJD, LJP, the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party as well as the Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist-Leninist (CPI-ML). “Several long route trains as well as passenger trains were stopped by bandh supporters and the road traffic was badly hit across the state,” a police official said. Trains were forcibly stopped at major railway stations like Patna, Gaya, Nalanda, Shekhpura, Jehanabad, Hajipur, Madhubani, Saharsa and Darbhanga, police said.