ONGOLE: Hundreds of YSR Congress workers participated in a demonstration in front of the Prakasam Bhavan urging the Centre to roll back the increase in the prices of diesel, kerosene and LPG.
Activists took out a novel procession with women carrying cooking gas on their shoulders by putting a wooden log across to symbolically oppose the unbearable burden imposed by the Manmohan Singh Government on their shoulders and bringing tears in their eyes.
“We have no other go but to go back to old ways of cooking with firewood,'' the party leaders said.
The agitators led by YSRCongress Prakasam district convenor N Balaji burnt the effigy of the Congress-led UPA government taking strong objection to the Centre effecting increase in fuel prices at a time when the crude oil prices in the international market were coming down.
Addressing the activists, Mr Balaji lamented that it had become a habit for the Centre to keep on increasing the fuel prices without any concern for the poor people who were finding it difficult to make a living in the wake of sky-rocketing prices of essential commodities.
He urged the Kiran Kumar Reddy government to absorb the hike in cooking gas price as had been done by Y.S Rajasekhara Reddy when in power, he said.
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