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Fuel price hike sparks protests

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: All India Youth Federation (AIYF) activists on Tuesday took out a march to the AG's Office and burnt the Prime Minister in effigy in protest against the hike in the prices of petrol and diesel.

AIYF State president, P.S. Supal, MLA, inaugurated the march and dharna. District secretary Manoj B. Edamana was among those who addressed the protestors.

The Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI), which also organised a protest in front of the Secretariat on Tuesday, alleged that the fuel price hike was effected just to help the oil companies. The State committee member B.K. Rajagopal was among those who spoke.

The Thiruvananthapuram Jilla Upabhokthru Samithi said the fuel price hike was "anti-people." A consumer State such as Kerala would be the worst-affected by the hike, the secretary D. Venugopal said in a statement. The Consumer Protection & Guidance Society, which controls the margin-free markets, has demanded withdrawal of the hike. The administrators had forgotten the plight of the common man owing to their sympathy for the oil companies, the secretary Punchakkary Ravi said in a press note.

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