BJP, Samajwadi Party blasts Centre for increase in diesel and LPG prices

Almost all the opposition parties blasted the central government for its decision to increase the diesel and LPG prices. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) organised protest rallies throughout the state while Samajwadi Party (SP) workers burnt effigies of UPA leaders.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, who is on a two-day tour of Mumbai, alleged on Saturday that the decision taken by the UPA government at the Centre was with the intention of facilitating profit to industrialists. She said all the Congress-led governments in the post independence era ensured that the capitalists and industrialists earn good money as the party has always get help from this class of the society.  

Although the protest march by the BJP at its Mumbai headquarters got lukewarm response with less than 100 party workers participating, the party’s demonstrators held a statewide protest. Senior party leaders abstained from the protest leaving it to the second-rung leaders, including former MP Ram Naik, Atul Bhatkhalkar and Atul Shah to lead the front in Mumbai. 

In an innovative way, women corporators from BJP in Amravati cooked on clay stoves. MNS workers joined them demanding a roll back of the hike. SP too held a protest march in the city. Party state chief Abu Azmi said that the price hike was an additional burden on the common man whose plight has no ends due to the everyday rising inflation.