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Telugu Desam’s novel protest over price rise

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Burning issue: TDP leaders display vegetables and essential commodities with price tags at a press conference in Vijayawada on Monday.

VIJAYAWADA: Telugu Desam Party activists under the leadership of Mylavaram MLA Devineni Umamaheswara Rao on Monday organised a protest programme to highlight, what they described as, the sky-rocketing prices of essential commodities far beyond the reach of common people.

The TDP leaders pooled together a variety of vegetables and essential commodities and spread them on a table along with tags indicating the prevailing prices in the market. They wanted the Government to open its eyes and wake up from its slumber to arrest the rising prices, so that the ordinary people will have a ray of hope.

The prices (per kg) displayed by the TDP leaders were Rs. 44 for sugar, Rs. 65 for red gram, Rs. 30 for rice, Rs. 45 for jaggery, Rs. 20 for beans, Rs. 16 for potatoes and Rs.50 per litre of petrol. The price of cooking gas refill was shown at Rs. 315.

Mr. Umamaheswara Rao said the Central and State governments failed miserably to contain the price rise at a time when the recession had hit the common people very hard. He wanted immediate steps to be taken to bring down the prices and provide relief to the ordinary people and middle classes.

Referring to the prices of sugar and rice, Mr. Umamaheswara Rao said while the farmers were not getting proper remunerative price, these commodities were making consumers’ lives difficult by the time they reached markets. He wanted the Government to plug the loopholes in the system and take action against those responsible for soaring prices.

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