A trade union leader on Wednesday died after being hit by a bus he was trying to stop from plying as part of a two-day nationwide strike in India called by central trade unions, sparking tension in the district where authorities have imposed prohibitory orders.
Narendra Singh, 55, who was squatting along with a group of workers near the local bus depot, died when he was hit by the bus, a senior Roadways official said here.
Narrating the sequence of events, Vidyarthi said, “Narender Singh was standing outside the workshop, on the other side of the driver’s seat.
District president, Haryana Roadways Workers Union’s, Inder Singh Bhadana demanded that a case to be lodged against the General Manager of the Roadways, failing which union leaders will not allow the body to be cremated.
A number of roadways employees and members of various employees’ unions gathered at the civil hospital at Ambala city where the body of Singh was kept for postmortem.