Mumbai Congress welcomes Sitharaman with black flags
They shouted slogans against the Union Budget and increase in fuel prices
MUMBAI: Mumbai Congress, on Sunday, staged a noisy protest against the rise in fuel prices and runaway inflation, which has burdened the masses owing to the policies of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at the Centre. The protest was held near the Swaminarayan Temple in Dadar, where Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman arrived to address Mumbai's business leaders and industrialists for the first time af ter presenting the Union Budget 2021-2022. Congress workers showed black flags to Sitharaman.
However, the police stopped the protesters from reaching the venue, a police official said. The protest was led by Mumbai Regional Congress president
Bhai Jagtap, who was accompanied by working president Charan Singh Sapra and spokesman Sachin Sawant. As the union minister reached Yogi Sabha Grah in Dadar, around 400 to 500 Congress workers started shouting slogans against her, the official
said. They also raised slogans in praise of their party leader Rahul Gandhi. They shouted slogans against the Union Budget and the increasing prices of essential commodities like petrol, diesel, cooking gas cylinders as well as railway fares. -