People were already reeling under inflation and price rise of essential commodities and at this juncture, the increase in fuel price will put more burden on them, she said.
Slamming the fuel price hike, AIADMK General Secretary Jayalalithaa today said the Centre should immediately rollback the increase in prices of petroleum products or otherwise the ruling DMK in the state should withdraw its support to the UPA Government.
"Centre should immediately rollback the fuel price hike as it would affect the common man. If it fails to do so, DMK should withdraw its support to the UPA government considering welfare of the people", she said in a statement here.
People were already reeling under inflation and price rise of essential commodities and at this juncture, the increase in fuel price will put more burden on them, she said.
Claiming that the prices of vegetable and other essential commodities will further go up due to the increase in the price of petroleum products, she said "poor and middle class people will be severely affected due to this".
Pattali Makkal Katchi founder Ramadoss also flayed the fuel price hike.In a statement, he said prices of essential commodities would go up in the wake of the hike.
"Especially increase in kerosene and LPG price will adversely affect the poor and middle class people," he said.
The Centre Of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) said it would organise a 24-hour transport strike in the state in the next few days to protest price hike of petroleum products.
"All representative transport trade unions of CITU would be conducting a state-wide strike in the next few days. A decision on the date will be taken soon", CITU state Secretary A Sounderajan told PTI.
Strongly condemning the fuel increase, he said,"through this move, the standard of living has been attacked by the government. We will be holding demonstration at important cities in the state after holding talks with Unions", he said.
However, train services and essential services would be kept outside the purview of the strike.
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