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| Youth Congress holds protest against hike in fuel prices | | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, June 8: : District Youth Congress Jammu Urban staged a protest against the BJP Government at the Centre for its failure to curb inflation and price rise of essential commodities.
Led by Happy Randhawa, Working District Youth Congress President Jammu Urban, the Youth Congress activists assembled near Kunjwani Chowk and raised slogans against the Modi government. The protest was held on the directions of Uday Chib, President J&K Pradesh Youth Congress.
Talking to reporters here, Happy Randhawa said that the Central Government headed by Narendra Modi had completely failed to curb the rise in fuel prices.
Randhawa lamented that petrol and diesel prices are being increased daily when the entire country was passing through a crucial phase amidst Covid-19 pandemic. He said that the Central Government is looting the people by hiking the excise duty on petrol and diesel.
“The anti-people policies of the BJP Government are responsible for the high prices of petrol, diesel and LPG despite crude oil consistently remaining down for the last six years,” he rued.
Terming the hike in petrol and diesel price ‘historic’, Randhawa said that the steepest fuel price hike will have cascading effects on other essential commodities affecting people already suffering from the exhaustive policies of the NDA government. He asserted that the government is not at all controlling petroleum companies, and common people are heavily burdened. This (hike) will further pinch the pockets of the common man who is battling inflation in view of COVID-19 crisis. If petrol, diesel prices are reduced it will help bring down inflation," he emphasized.
The protesting Youth Congress asked the BJP led Government at the Centre to withdraw the hike in petrol and diesel prices, and should fix prices affordable for people who have just recovered from the problems created by the lockdown. |
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