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| BJP, JKSS protest against price hike, burn effigy of UPA | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 15
The activists of Bhartia Janta Party and Jammu Kashmir Shiv Sena organized protest rallies on Friday against the price hike of petrol, diesel and other essential commodities and burned the effigy of UPA government.
In two different protest rallies organized here on Friday, the activists of Bhartia Janta Party and Jammu Kashmir Shiv Sena decried the UPA government for its failure to check the prices of daily use commodities.
Shouting anti UPA slogans, hundreds of BJP activists took out a procession from their party headquarters and after passing through various markets of city reached city chowk where they sat on the road to register their protest.
They burnt the effigy of UPA government and criticized it for its failure to contain the prices of necessary items.
Addressing the Protestants, BJP President, Ashok Khajuria said that since the advent of UPA government in the center, the prices of daily use goods have gone sky high exposing the common man to all sorts of problems.
" It has become very difficult for a common man to survive as it is very difficult for him to afford the commodities of daily use," Khajuria added.
Earlier in the day, the activists of Jammu Kashmir Shiv Sena also took out a procession to protest against the price hike of Petrol, diesel and daily use commodities.
The activists burnt the effigy of Center government and criticized it for not checking the prices of daily use items.
Talking to media persons on the occasion, President JKSS, Ashok Gupta said that the prices hike of petrol and diesel automatically means the further upsurge in the prices of vegetables and pulses.
" People of the country burdened with the prices of essential commodities and the further increase would automatically put extra burden on common man and I am sure that thousands and thousands of people would be compelled to sleep without a morsel of food," he added. |
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