SUCI (Communist) protests steepest hike in Cooking Gas, Diesel and Kerosene

Patna, June 25:

SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee protests the excessive hike in cooking gas by Rs 50 per cylinder, diesel by Rs 3 per litre and kerosene by Rs 2 per litre and burns the effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at Patna Jn. Roundabout on Saturday.

Party activists took out a protest march from Radio Station and traversing the main thoroughfare Dak Bungalow Roundabout reached Patna Jn. Roundabout where the effigy was burnt and a street corner meeting was held. The activists were shouting thunderous slogans against anti people policies of the UPA Government in Centre.

Addressing the meeting the speakers said: “The Congress led UPA government at Centre excessively increased the prices of cooking gas, diesel and kerosene in order to serve the industrial houses, the oil lobbies. The anti people face of the Central government has come to fore. The fraudulent pretext of the government of hike in international crude prices and mounting loss incurred by the oil companies, the fact is that both Government-owned oil companies as well as private oil behemoths are accumulating huge profit so much so as to be able to make massive investment abroad in oil business. The increase in the prices of diesel, the main transportation fuel, will immediately push up cost of food items, bus fares, freight as well as many consumer goods. The cascading effect of this sharpest jump in prices of kitchen fuel, diesel and kerosene will deal a severe blow to the people already reeling under spiraling rise in prices of essential commodities entailing further misery and penury to their life.

Denounced this anti people move of the government all the speakers call upon the people to rise in protest against this most despicable act of the government and build up powerful movement in demand for immediate withdrawal of the hike and lowering of the huge taxes imposed on petro-products.”

The meeting was addressed by Shivlal Prasad, M K Pathak, both senior State Committee Members, Sadhana Mishra, Secretary, Patna District committee, Baidya Nath Sharma, Rajendra Ray, Suryakar Jitendra, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all District Committee Members, SUCI (Communist).