Congress stages protests across UP over rising fuel, LPG prices

Congress workers staged demonstrations across Uttar Pradesh on Monday to protest the rising prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas. The party’s state unit chief, Ajay Kumar Lallu, said people have been hit hard by the continuously rising prices of petrol and diesel, but it is falling on deaf ears of the government.

“To protest against this insensitivity of the government, party workers staged demonstrations throughout the state,” he added. Lallu said Congress workers took out tonga yatras and bullock carts to register their protest at all district headquarters of the party.

The hike in fuel prices in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is increasing the difficulties being faced by the common man, he said.

At one such protest in Mathura, Congress workers carrying empty LPG cylinders reached the district magistrate’s office on horse-drawn carts and handed over a memorandum demanding a control on the rising prices.

Led by the party’s district president, Bhagwan Singh Verma, the protesters raised slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

In Ghaziabad, Congress workers marched with three bullock carts loaded with motorcycles as part of their protest against the rising fuel prices.