Protest March in Patna against the price hike of petrol and the police repression at Nalanda

Patna, 16 September:
SUCI (Communist) Patna District Committee took out a protest march against the price hike of petrol and the police atrocity at Noorsarai, under Nalanda district on people’s movement here on Friday. The protest march was started from Dinkar Golambar and concluded at Bhagat Singh Chowk passing through Nala Road, Thakurbari Road and Bari Path. The participants were shouting slogans like ‘Roll back the increased prices of Petrol’, ‘ Decrease the taxes of Central and State governments on Petrol’,‘ Stop police repression on mass movements’, ‘ Punish the senior police officials responsible for severe lathichare on women at Noorsarai’.
The speakers while addressing the gathering at Bhagat Singh Chowk said: “The already woeful condition of people of Bihar due to skyrocketing price hike of essential commodities would worsen on account of further price rise of petrol. The repeated price hike of petrol is due to the outcome of decontrol of prices of petrol by the government last year in order to give the freehand to the oil companies for reaping maximum profit. The anti people face of the Congress led UPA government is now unveiled. On the one hand the oil companies are talking of loss and they are making huge profit by investing in overseas on the other. Everyone knows these are self contradictory and the talk of loss is baseless.”
“The JDU-BJP combine government is suppressing mass movements in the name of susashan (good governance). The method by which the police at Noorsarai, Nalanda resorted lathicharge on the peaceful protest of people, including women is highly deplorable. The women were beaten up severely by male police, even not in uniform in full public view. The women were beaten up severely on the road and in police custody by the DSP Ramakant Prasad himself while they were demonstrating peacefully against their civic problems at Nala Road, Patna” said the speakers. They said that the Nitish Government was following the same footprints of the anti people governments of earlier. Urging the common people to come forward and build up mass movements against the anti people policies of the state and the central governments they stated the mass movement is the only way to redress the people’s problems.
The meeting was addressed by Manikant Patahk, State Committee Member, SUCI (Communist), Sadhana Mishra, Dist Secretary, Patna and Baidyanath Sharma, Rajkumar Chaudhary, Anil Kumar and Anamika, all District Committee Members.