Party secretary-general Ajay Singh Chautala led the demonstration in Sirsa town, while his brother MLA Abhey Singh spearheaded the protests at Ellenabad.<center></center>

MLAs Krishan Kamboj and Charanjit Singh led demonstrations at Rania and Kalanwali and former MLA Sita Ram in Dabwali.

"The prices of items of daily use have been soaring, but the central and the state governments have been shifting the onus on each other instead of trying to mitigate the miseries of the common people," alleged Ajay Singh while addressing protesters in Sirsa.

Memoranda addressed to the Governor were presented to the authorities in each of the five towns. Workers of the PWD held a demonstration in front of their office. They alleged that neither pay arrears were being paid to them, nor demands like revival of LTC and ex-gratia employment were being met.

The Labourers' Union of the local grain market blocked the national highway for over an hour against the arrest of three of their members in a theft case.

They said their members had been arrested following an FIR lodged by a trader 10 days back and while the "real culprits" were roaming free, their innocent colleagues had been arrested.

The Haryana PWD Mechanical Workers Union held a demonstration in front of the office of the Superintending Engineer (SE) against the move to hand over the functioning of the waterworks to panchayats.<center></center>

The demonstrators gave a memorandum addressed to minister Randeep Surjewala to the SE.The Chhatra Sangharsh Samiti of Chaudhary Devi Lal University here held a protest against lack of amenities in the hostel and delay in refund of hostel security.

Fatehabad: The INLD organised protests against rising prices at Fatehabad, Ratia and Tohana.

Swatantar Bala Chaudhary, former MLA, led the demonstration at Fatehabad, while INLD MLA Gian Chand Odh and former MLA Nishan Singh led protests at Ratia and Tohana, respectively.

KURUKSHETRA: Activists of the Indian National Lok Dal led by state president Ashok Arora took out a procession in protest against price rise, corruption, unemployment and black marketing of LPG here on Friday. Arora alleged that the state government had failed to control the price rise.

The Congress government before coming to power had promised to abolish VAT. However, after coming to power, the state government had made a mockery of public by putting an extra financial burden of Rs 500 crore on people of Haryana.

Source: The Tribune INLD spearheads protest against price rise

In its complaint to the Chief Election Commission, the INLD has said that Deepender, son of the Chief Minister and Congress candidate from Rohtak had indulged in corrupt practices by announcing a grant of Rs 5 lakh to a society for construction of Sri Krishan Dharamshala at Jhajjar on March 29 after enforcement of the code. The INLD urged the commission to register a criminal case against Deepeneder.

The INLD said Kataria was also the chief administrator of the Shri Mata Mansa Devi Shrine Board, Panchkula, apart from being DC, Panchkula. It alleged that Mullana and Kataria had misused the famous religious place for political benefits and with a view to woo the voters by playing with their religious sentiments.

The Congress banner as well as a banner displaying the names of Kataria and Mullana had been displayed prominently.

The party wanted that a criminal case should be registered against Mullana and Kataria for violating the code.

At the same time, directions should issue to the state government to repatriate Kataria to his parent state, Karnataka, immediately.

Chautala, who was on a whirlwind tour of Gurgaon villages today, lambasted the Hooda regime over the alleged irregularities in acquisition and subsequent release of land at the behest of certain Congress leaders."They (government) first issue notices for acquisition for a said chunk of land. The land is then purchased by persons close to ruling party leaders at low rates. Under pressure of acquisition, the owners go in for distress sale of their land. At a later stage, the acquisition is cancelled, following which the land is sold at much higher rates," he asserted, adding that many farmers of the state had thus been cheated.

The INLD leader warned the villagers that if this situation was allowed to persist, they would be forced to work as labourers on their own land. The former Chief Minister, who was accompanied by state INLD vice-president Anant Ram Tanwar, former Deputy Speaker of Haryana Assembly Gopi Chand Gehlot, Union Minister Rao Inderjit Singh's brother Rao Ajit Singh and local INLD leader Ramesh Dahiya, also castigated the Congress government for the "deteriorating" law and order situation in the state.

Chatting with the villagers in chaste Haryanvi in between his speech, Chautala urged them to cast their votes unitedly in favour of the INLD if they thought that his rule was better than that of the present regime. He promised to hike the old-age pension to Rs 700 per month if his party came to power.

The tour, which started from Sikanderpur village of the district early this morning, culminated at Gurgaon Gaon late in the evening.

Local INLD leaders held a meeting on Monday, announcing their support to the farmer's agitation. About 60 workers of the BJP's Haryana unit led by former education minister Ram Vilas Sharma attempted to march towards the SEZ site to express solidarity with the farmers.

They were arrested by the police on the way. On July 4, Kuldip Bishnoi, who broke away from Congress party, joined the agitating farmers and had attempted to organise a rally at the SEZ site in Harsaru village.

Bishnoi, who leads the Haryana Janhit Congress, was arrested along with his supporters and prevented from marching. On Monday, local MLA and former deputy speaker of Haryana Assembly, Gopi Chand Gahlot, announced the launch of a full-fledged stir against the Haryana government.

He said his party would decide on the future course of action in a bigger meeting on July 13 against the state government to oppose transfer of state government's 1,400 acres of land for the Reliance SEZ. Gahlot also condemned police suppression against farmers. "The police have started implicating the farmers in fake criminal case and have registered FIRs to terrorise them.

Many of the farmers have fled their homes and there is curfew-like situation in villages such as Harsaru, Garoli Kala and Garoli Khurd where the state government acquired the land and passed on to Reliance," he said. Umesh Aaggarwal the publicity secretary of the BJP in Haryana, said party leaders have decided to meet on July 18 to oppose the state government on its stand on Reliance SEZ. "We have decided to take the agitation further in support of the farmers whose land was acquired.

Our party opposes the transfer of land to Reliance for SEZ," he added. The working President of the Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee, Kuldeep Sharma, said the government was helping the Haryana State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation in taking possession of the land because the corporation has 10 per cent equity share in the SEZ. He said by sharing equity, the state government wanted to have its say in matters related to SEZ so it can pressurise entrepreneurs to employ local in the units to be set up there.