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