Rohtak, May 17 -- High drama unfolded as Haryana assembly deputy speaker and Jind MLA Krishan Middha on Friday ordered officials of Haryana Shahari Vikas Pradhikaran (HSVP)to sit on the roadside in Diwan Khana market in Jind city on Friday.

This came in the wake of an anti-encroachment drive during which the HSVP officials threw items of street vendors on Thursday without giving them prior notice after receiving complaints from shopkeepers. The street vendors reached Middha's house and narrated the incident to him.

Angered, Middha called the HSVP officials at the Diwan Khana market and asked HSVP sub-divisional officer Tarun to show him the notice in which orders were given to demolish the street vendors' carts and throw their items on ...