FUEL PRICE HIKE
TNN
Ludhiana: To protest the fuel price hike, the Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) members here on Monday took out a protest march with a donkey-driven cart carrying two two-wheelers and LPG cylinders.
The protest was led by LIP district president Baldev Singh and spokesperson of LIP, Punjab, and in charge of Gill segment Gagandeep Singh, alias Sunny Kainth. It started from Jagraon Bridge and culminated at Ghanta Ghar Chowk. Protesters raised slogans against the Centre for high fuel and LPG prices and some of them beat tin containers.
Kainth said the fuel prices had reached the Rs 100 per litre-mark and PM Narendra Modi should understand that petrol and diesel were not only being used in government vehicles, but also by the common man. He said to hide its mistake, the government was blaming the previous regime, forgetting that it has been in power for the past seven years.
Kainth added that BJP minister Smriti Irani, when in Opposition, used to wear potatoes and onions around her neck, carry cylinders, and sit on protests, but where was she now? The LIP leader said the government must reduce taxes on fuel and stop lining its own pockets.
One of the protesters said vehicles were loaded on the donkey-driven cart in a symbolic protest to show that it was difficult to drive owing to high prices of fuel.