Several protesting Haryana Congress workers on cycles were today prevented from proceeding towards the state Assembly complex by the police here. The protesters led by state Congress chief Ashok Tanwar were taken into preventive custody at the Panchkula-Chandigarh border. Congress workers wanted to gherao the assembly complex on the opening day of its Budget Session, to protest against the alleged "failures" of BJP-led Haryana government. "The Manohar Lal Khattar government in Haryana has completely failed on all fronts.
There is a complete failure of law and order and there is resentment among businessmen and youth against the BJP government," Tanwar alleged while talking to the media. Protesting the police action, he said Congress workers were going to 'gherao' the Vidhan Sabha in a democratic way but the Khattar government stopped them to cover its own failure. Tanwar and other Congress workers were later let off. The state Congress chief today started the 'Haryana Bachao-Parivartan Lao Cycle Yatra' from Kalka in Panchkula district. Tanwar had announced to take out the cycle rally across the state to expose the alleged "misdeeds and failure" of the BJP government. "Haryana Bachao-Privartan Lao Cycle Yatra will become a people's movement against the misrule of the BJP government. It will also strengthen the Congress in all the 90 assembly constituencies," he said. Those who joined this cycle rally included former ministers Bijender Kadian, Subhash Batra, Ram Sawroop Rama, former chief parliamentary secretary Ram Kishan Fauji and ex-MLA Raj Rani Poonam.
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