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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (SP)

Mangalore, Apr 16: The activists of the Congress, under the aegis of the city north block committee of the party, staged a protest in front of the milk dairy of Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) in Kulshekar in the city in the morning of Friday April 16.

The activists, who were holding placards blaming the government for creating problems for the poor people, raised slogans against the state government.  Congress Party north block president, K Suresh Ballal, and party leaders, Kallige Taranath Shetty and M G Hegde, addressed the protestors. They accused the government of refusing to accept the proposal to hike the milk prices by two rupees a litre when the previous chairman of KMF, Revanna, had moved it, and then hiking the price by four rupees a litre after the conclusion of Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike election.

They demanded for rolling back of the prices, fixing a uniform price for KMF milk  in all the districts, to print date of packing on all the milk sachets without fail and to open more parlours across the district to stop the milk vendors from taking advantage of milk scarcity and selling it at exorbitant prices.