Cong takes out bullock cart rally against petrol price hike
: Riding on bullock, horse and camel carts and cycle rickshaws, Congressmen protested against increasing fuel prices, in Jaipur on Tuesday.
Rajasthan Congress chief Sachin Pilot led the protest and announced that the party would organise demonstrations in all district headquarters in the state on the issue on September 28.
“The situation in the country is dismal. People are disturbed with inflation and in these circumstances, fuel price hike has affected the economic structure of all across the country. Despite crude oil prices in the international market being half, the central government increased excise duty which has stopped the benefit to people,” Pilot said.
Pilot asked the government to reduce prices of diesel and petrol, saying it was “robbing” the common man by imposing high excise
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duty. He said people are angry with rising prices. “Taking les- sons from their defeat in the pan- chayat bypolls the government should remove tax on petrol-die- sel and gas,” he said.
The angry public will “teach a befitting lesson” to the BJP in the next elections, he added.
District Congress president Pratap Singh Khachariyawas said the prices of fuel and gas is at its highest in the last 70 years. Crude oil price in the international market is 50 dollar per barrel, which during the tenure of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was 120 dollar per barrel but prices were not this high.
Some Congressmen also wore garlands of vegetables as a mark of protest against rising of vegetables that hit the poor and common people hard.