<p>The nationwide strike hit normalcy in Punjab and Haryana Wednesday as public transport kept off the roads and banks remained shut.<br /><br /></p>.<p> A Haryana Roadways employee was killed in an accident as he and his colleagues were commencing their protest.<br /><br />Narender Singh, a driver with Haryana Roadways, was killed in Haryana's Ambala city Wednesday after being hit by a state transport bus at Ambala bus depot, 45 km from here.<br />Union leaders said that Singh and other employees were about to start their protest when the authorities tried to take out some buses from the depot. <br /><br />One of the buses crushed Singh when he tried to stop it. He was rushed to Ambala Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The errant driver escaped.<br /><br />Haryana Roadways Workers Union's Ambala district president Inder Singh Bhadana said Singh would not be cremated until the state government registered a case against senior police officials and the Haryana Roadways general manager for trying to forcibly ply buses.<br /><br />Ambala deputy commissioner Shekhar Vidyarthi appealed for calm. He said the bus depot incident was only an accident.<br /><br />Meanwhile, angry protestors pelted stones at government vehicles. Officers of the district administration and local police, who rushed to the spot, were locked up in a room by the protestors.<br /><br />The protestors overturned the vehicle of a police official.<br /><br />Eleven major trade unions have called a two-day all-India strike to press for demands like concrete measures to counter inflation, steps for employment generation, job security, universal social security, and ensuring that workers get a minimum wage of Rs.10,000 per month along with daily allowance.<br /></p>
<p>The nationwide strike hit normalcy in Punjab and Haryana Wednesday as public transport kept off the roads and banks remained shut.<br /><br /></p>.<p> A Haryana Roadways employee was killed in an accident as he and his colleagues were commencing their protest.<br /><br />Narender Singh, a driver with Haryana Roadways, was killed in Haryana's Ambala city Wednesday after being hit by a state transport bus at Ambala bus depot, 45 km from here.<br />Union leaders said that Singh and other employees were about to start their protest when the authorities tried to take out some buses from the depot. <br /><br />One of the buses crushed Singh when he tried to stop it. He was rushed to Ambala Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The errant driver escaped.<br /><br />Haryana Roadways Workers Union's Ambala district president Inder Singh Bhadana said Singh would not be cremated until the state government registered a case against senior police officials and the Haryana Roadways general manager for trying to forcibly ply buses.<br /><br />Ambala deputy commissioner Shekhar Vidyarthi appealed for calm. He said the bus depot incident was only an accident.<br /><br />Meanwhile, angry protestors pelted stones at government vehicles. Officers of the district administration and local police, who rushed to the spot, were locked up in a room by the protestors.<br /><br />The protestors overturned the vehicle of a police official.<br /><br />Eleven major trade unions have called a two-day all-India strike to press for demands like concrete measures to counter inflation, steps for employment generation, job security, universal social security, and ensuring that workers get a minimum wage of Rs.10,000 per month along with daily allowance.<br /></p>