Srikakulam: TDP president N. Chandrababu Naidu on Tuesday predicted misery and hardship to the people of Andhra Pradesh, what with the steep hike in the price of petrol and diesel which would have a cascading effect and push prices of all essential commodities skywards.

Mr. Naidu along with other senior leaders, including party leader in the Lok Sabha Kinjarapu Yerrannaidu, TDLP deputy leader Kimidi Kalavenkata Rao and party MLAs Kalamata Mohana Rao, Kambala Jogulu and district unit party president Tammineni Sitaram and Kalamata Venkataramana took a bullock cart to come to the party's general body meeting venue from the seven roads junction, passing through the main roads in the town and covering a distance of about 3 km.

The TDP president said the Congress party promised a roll back of petrol and diesel prices before election. Now it was for the sixth time that it had hiked the prices of these products.

For the thick-skinned Congress Governments at the State and Centre, protests in the form of riding bullock carts were not enough.

The party would intensify the agitation and carry it out in coordination with other parties opposing the hike.

Mr. Naidu said that the hike would result in a revenue of Rs. 300 crores to the State Government, but imposes a burden of Rs. 1,500 crores on the people.

He called upon the cadre to chalk out their own form of agitation to oppose the hike.

Political murders flayed

In his hour-long speech to the party workers at Harika Inn in the outskirts of the town, Mr. Naidu explained how the Congress Government had been duping people and trying to intimidate the TDP by resorting to political murders.

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