Rohtak, Sept. 7 -- Former Haryana chief minister and leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Sunday accused the BJP government of misleading sanitation workers and employees of the Haryana Kaushal Rozgar Nigam (HKRN) over job regularisation.

Hooda, who was in Rohtak, said, "The government lied in the assembly about the workers' demands. On the demand pertaining to sanitation workers, it said no policy could be formulated to regularise them just after two years of service."

Sanitation workers have been protesting since August 6 for regular jobs, among other demands. Hooda claimed that two notifications were issued during the previous Congress government, dated June 16 and June 18, 2014, providing for the regularisation of employees...