Congress workers on Saturday staged a horse-cart protest here, targeting the BJP-led Centre over inflation, unemployment and alleged NEET paper leak.
The protest march, led by Haryana Congress president Rao Narendra Singh and organised by District Congress Committee president Vardhan Yadav, began from Tau Devi Lal Stadium and culminated at the Mini Secretariat, where party leaders submitted a memorandum to SDM Hitendra Sharma.
The horse-cart became the central symbol of the protest, with Congress leaders claiming that soaring petrol and diesel prices had pushed common citizens “backwards” economically.
Carrying placards and banners, party workers raised slogans against the Centre and accused the government of burdening the public with relentless hikes in petrol, diesel and LPG cylinder prices.
Addressing protesters, Rao Narendra Singh alleged that the BJP government had “failed on every front”, claiming inflation had severely affected farmers, labourers, the middle class and small traders.
He said rising fuel and cooking gas prices had disrupted household budgets, while repeated examination paper leaks had shattered the confidence of students and youth.
“On one hand people are struggling with inflation and on the other the future of hardworking youth is being destroyed through paper leak scandals like NEET,” he said, adding that the Congress would continue its agitation against “inflation and corruption”.
Yadav said the BJP government’s policies had pushed every section of society into distress. “Today, even filling a fuel tank or booking a gas cylinder has become a challenge for ordinary citizens,” he said, accusing the Centre of “squeezing the public through taxes”.
