India, July 29 -- The agitation by sanitation workers is set to intensify on Thursday with union leaders announcing a series of protests including road blockades and dumping garbage on roads and outside the residences of government leaders as part of the statewide Punjab bandh call.

The announcement comes a day after sanitation workers held demonstrations outside the municipal corporation's (MC) Zone-A office in Ludhiana where they suspended work and demanded action over the alleged police lathicharge on sanitation workers in Barnala.

Vijay Danav chairperson of the MC employees union and a sanitation workers leader said that the government had failed to respond to the workers demands despite repeated assurances.

"The government should ...