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BJP for rollback in petrol price

Special Correspondent

ONGOLE : Bharatiya Janata Party activists staged dharna near Prakasam Bhavan here on Thursday demanding the Central Government to roll back the hike in prices of petroleum products and burnt the effigy of Petroleum Minister Murli Deora as a symbolic expression to voice their protest.

Addressing the gathering, State BJP executive committee member B. Narasimha Rao said that the diesel price increased from Rs. 19 to Rs. 35.71 per litre while the price of petrol went up from Rs. 36.67 to Rs. 52.87 a litre since the UPA came to power at the Centre.

Stating that the price increase would adversely affect the farmers, transport sectors and many other related services and sectors, he demanded that the Government withdraw the petroleum products price hike.

He pointed out that the prices of all essential commodities like rice, sugar, pulses, edible oils, cooking gas, vegetables increased by 20 to 50 per cent and the petroleum prices were being hiked for the sixth time in the last two years.

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