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By Our Staff Reporter
CPI activists demonstrating against the hike in fuel prices at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo:Sandeep Saxena
NEW DELHI, NOV. 9. Criticising the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government for increasing the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas and not taking it into confidence before making the announcement, the Delhi-unit of the Communist Party of India today threatened to launch a nationwide agitation against the move. Addressing the CPI and National Federation of Indian Women activists at Jantar Mantar, the CPI MP and general secretary of the All India Trade Union Congress, Gurudas Das Gupta, said the UPA Government's decision to hike the prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas was an anti-poor measure which would create economic hardships for every Indian, including workers, farmers and industrialists. "We have come out on the battlefield and will fight to the last as this hike will also increase the prices of vegetables and essential commodities," he saidSuggesting there were other methods to collect taxes, Mr. Gupta said that industrialists, private hospitals and rich landlords should be taxed adequately. "If the Government does not pay heed to our voice, then workers and peasants would join hands and collectively fight the UPA Government," he declared. The general secretary of the All India Kisan Sabha, Atul Anjan, warned that from January 1, 2005, the Multi-Fibre Agreement will come into effect and this would mean that the Indian market would get inundated with Korean, Japanese and Chinese clothes and about five crore handloom and power loom workers would be rendered jobless. Objecting to the praise showered on United States by the Prime Minister recently, Mr. Anjan asked: "Dr. Singh has said the United States is a superpower and a big country, but he should not forget that India is the biggest democracy in the world. In the fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the just-concluded US elections, the issue of outsourcing in India was criticised by both the parties. But what about multinational companies operating on our soil which have made lakhs of Indians unemployed." Directly blaming the United States and Britain for the petrol hike, Mr. Anjan said: "These two countries are responsible for the hike as they invaded Iraq, which is the fourth largest producer of petrol."
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