The party workers gathered in Sector 20 around 10.30 a.m. and marched towards the Sector 17 Inter-State Bus Terminus, passing through Sectors 21 and 22, and raising slogans against the Punjab government for its failure to check the rising prices and hike in bus fares.

The parties also protested against the "anti-poor budget of the Central government, flouting of the minimum wage policy, deteriorating law and order situation and the failure of the BJP-led coalition government on all fronts". The protesters blocked the exit point of Punjab Roadways buses, which were not allowed out of the ISBT for almost an hour. The protest was, however, peaceful. The protesters dispersed past noon.

Meanwhile, police maintained that the buses moved as usual and "though the protesters blocked an exit point, they did not stop the buses from going out from other points". Among those who addressed the rally included Inderjit Aggarwal and Dilip Nandi of CPM, Devi Dayal Sharma and H.S. Gambhir of CPI and V.P. Bharti and Rajendra Mohan Kashyap of the Janata Dal. Kashyap, president of the local unit of JD, demanded the resignation of Union Minister of Food and Supplies Surjit Singh Barnala on moral grounds for his "failure" to control the prices of essential commodities.