Two BJP activists were injured in skirmishes with police as demonstrators burnt tyres and torched effigies of the Governor, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, police said.

They also blocked vehicular traffic on the highway and other inter-districts road, they said adding 11 BJP-Shiv Sena activists were arrested in connection with the violence.

Denouncing Vohra's decision to hand over affairs of the Amarnath Shrine Board to the state government, the protesters sought his immediate removal.

Shops and businesses remained shut and traffic remained off the road for the second straight day on Tuesday in the city.

The state government ordered closure of schools, colleges and other educational institutions as a precautionary measure while the Jammu University put off examinations of its management courses scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

IGP (Jammu) K Rajindra said the situation was tense but under control, adding adequate police had been deployed in the entire city where prohibitory orders had been imposed to maintain peace.

The BJP-Shiv Sena shutdown, which has crippled normal life, has been extended till Wednesday.

In Kashmir where shops and business establishments were shut, police and para-military personnel patrolled the streets to prevent any untoward incident.

Ahead of their proposed rally in Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir government had placed almost all separatist leaders under house arrest.

The leaders included chairman of the moderate faction of the Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umer Farooq, senior amalgam leader Shabir Ahmad Shah and JKLF chief Mohammad Yasin Malik.