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Political parties slam hike in fuel prices

PUDUCHERRY: Flaying the hike in fuel prices, political parties including the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Left parties and the Puducherry Munnetra Congress (PMC) on Thursday urged the Union government to roll back it.

The Puducherry unit of the Communist Party of India, in a release, said a nation-wide protest would be held on Friday.

As part of this, the party would hold torchlight demonstration at four places in Oulgaret municipal limits. Protests would be staged at Mudrapalayam, Reddiarpalayam, Rainbow Nagar and Karuvadikuppam. The activists would also hold a protest rally near the Rajiv Gandhi statue.

Vice-president of the PMC K. Lakshminarayanan said the poor and middle class families were already bearing the brunt of skyrocketing prices of essential commodities.

Condemning the hike in fuel prices, he said the government should look at the reduction of sales tax and should not consider hike in prices as the only solution to control inflation.

The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) staged a demonstration protesting the price hike, on Thursday.

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