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TDP, CPI(M) stage joint protests against petrol price hike

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CPI(M), TDP together stage demonstrations in Tirupati

WOMEN HAVE THEIR SAY: Women supporters of Left parties staging a demonstration against hike in petroleum prices in Kurnool on Tuesday. — Photo: U. SubramanayaM

TIRUPATI: District party functionaries of the Telugu Desam Party and Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Tuesday held joint demonstrations at two places in the town denouncing the stiff hike in prices.

Waving their respective party flags and shouting anti-UPA slogans the cadres of the two parties first held a rasta roko at the busy Nalagukalla Mandapam junction and later laid siege to the chambers of the Station Superintendent of Tirupati (East) railway station.

KURNOOL: TDP and Left parties staged protests against petrol price hike at different places in the city on Tuesday.

TDP leaders led by district president K.E. Krishna Murthy organised rasta roko at Visweswaraya statue for an hour.

Crippling effect

They criticised the hike saying it would cripple the economic activities in the country.

At Raj Vihar Centre, CPI(M) and CPI supporters staged a demonstration and held up the traffic. CPI(M) leader Prabhakar Reddy, CPI district secretary P. Bhimlingappa and others took part.

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