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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 9: J&K Youth Congress today intensified protest against the rising fuel prices that have crossed the Rs 100-mark in several parts of the country.
Led by Latish Sharma, Secretary J&K Youth Congress, the party activists assembled outside the gate of Bagh-e-Bahu Garden, Jammu and raised slogans against the BJP Government at the Centre. Carrying placards, the protesters raised slogans against the BJP government and demanded respite in fuel prices. The protest was held on the directions of Uday Chib, President J&K PYC.
Latish Sharma hit out at the Centre over the rise in petrol prices and said the waves of tax collection epidemic are continuously coming.
“We will continue protesting till the fuel prices are slashed,” said Sharma, who slammed the BJP Government for its anti people policies. He asked, “Is this the BJP version of Ache Din?”
Lashing out at the BJP for protecting the interest of the oil marketing companies at the cost of the people, Sharma said that BJP has been milking the people and depriving them of the benefits that should have accrued to them due to decrease in international crude oil prices for the last four years.
“Instead, they kept increasing the prices and failed to pass on the benefits to the consumers”, he said and demanded tax cut on diesel and petrol.
The protesting Youth Congress activists demanded that BJP at the Centre and the insensitive PDP/BJP dispensation in State should cut on Central Excise duty and VAT respectively so that some reprieve could be provided to the people suffering due to high fuel prices. |
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