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Roll back prices of petrol and diesel, say Left parties

Staff Correspondent

`Increase in bus fares has put additional burden on common man'

BIJAPUR: Members of Leftist organisations and Samajwadi Party protested here on Tuesday against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel.

They also opposed the eight per cent increase in KSRTC bus fares. Protesters led by president of Prantha Raitha Sangha district unit, Bhimshi Kaladagi; president of district unit of Samajwadi Party, Sharanappa Biradar and vice-president of State Janawadi Mahila Sangatana, Surekha Rajput, took out a procession from Siddeshwar Temple premises. They formed a human chain at Gandhi Chowk disrupting traffic for half an hour.

Effigies burnt

Also, they burnt effigies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Petroleum Minister Murli Deora at Gandhi Chowk. Those who spoke on the occasion urged the Centre to roll back the prices.

Treading the Centre's path, the coalition regime in State increased bus fares putting additional burden on the people. Later they handed over a memorandum addressed to President of India to Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Mohsin.

Protests were organised by Leftist organisations and Samajwadi Party in Bagalkot town. The BJP and its allies organised separate protests in taluks, including Mudhol.

Bidar Staff Correspondent writes:

Members of the Left parties in Bidar joined the national-level protest against the hike in fuel prices on Tuesday. Protestors from the CPI and CPI(M) gathered at the Ambedkar Circle in the morning. They shouted slogans against the UPA Government. Then they rode on donkeys through the main streets of the city. They reached the Deputy Commissioner's office, where some of them delivered speeches on the "high cost of living created by an insensitive Union Government". They demanded that the Government roll back the prices immediately. They submitted a memorandum addressed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh through the Deputy Commissioner and dispersed.

Raichur Staff Correspondent writes:

Members of the district unit of the Samajwadi Party and the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a dharna on the premises of the Deputy Commissioners' office here on Tuesday in protest against the hike in prices of petrol and diesel. Later, they submitted a memorandum to the Headquarter Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner urging the Union Government to roll back fuel prices.

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