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CHENNAI, NOV. 14. Left party activists today squatted on the tracks at Saidapet and Basin Bridge to protest the steep hike in price of fuel, preventing the movement of trains. About 1,200 persons were arrested in the two places and later released. The protest was staged by members of Communist Party of India (CPI) and the CPI (M), volunteers of the Democratic Youth Association of India and the Students Federation of India. At Saidapet, partymen and students squatted on the track at 10.50 a.m., blocking the S 39 and S 34 broad gauge electric trains that were on their way to Tambaram and Beach respectively. They climbed on the driver's coach and raised slogans against the Central Government. The trains suffered a delay of about 20 minutes. The protestors later dispersed and courted arrest. They got into police vehicles and were driven away to a government School in Saidapet, where they were kept till the evening. In Basin Bridge, the protestors were led by S.K. Mahendran, CPI(M) MLA from Perambur and by A. Soundarajaran, general secretary of the Centre of Indian Trade Unions at Saidapet. The protestors said that taxes alone accounted for 54 per cent of the price of a litre of petrol. While the retail price was Rs. 42.51, the various taxes imposed by the Central and State governments accounted for Rs. 22.82. If the taxes could be scrapped or reduced, the price of petrol and diesel would automatically come down, they said. Mr. Soundararajan said the Centre's claims that the price hike of petrol, diesel LPG cylinders was due to increase in international crude prices were false. Today's demonstration was part of a series of planned State-wide protests if the State and Centre did not roll back the price hike, he added.
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