Attempt to crush sanitation workers' movement: Rohtak District Head said that the Municipal Minister issued a decree, attempting to intimidate them.

The government is attempting to break the strike of sanitation workers and fire brigade employees in Rohtak, India. The sanitation workers have accused the local body minister of issuing orders to force them into following his instructions, with the intention of creating division among the workers and ending the agitation. Shambhu Tank, district president of the Municipal Sanitation Workers Union, stated that instead of finding a solution to the workers' problems, the government is resorting to repression.