BJP Protests Petrol Price Hike, Demands Rollback


New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS): The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) staged a demonstration Friday morning at central Delhi's Jantar Mantar, protesting the latest hike in petrol prices. Party leaders demanded immediate rollback of the hike.

"The UPA (United Progressive Alliance) only wants to make life difficult for the common man by raising the cost of essential commodities," said BJP's V.K. Malhotra, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi assembly.

Petrol prices were hiked Thursday, for the 10th time since June 2010, by Rs.3.14 a litre from Friday. "We demand an immediate rollback of this hike," Malhotra said.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: BJP Protests Petrol Price Hike, Demands Rollback



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.