Left parties protest against fuel price hike

The Left parties staged a protest against the steep hike in prices of petroleum products, near Kaleswara Rao Market in the city on Thursday.

The police physically lifted the protesting Communist Party of India (CPI) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders, and workers of the front organisations, who virtually laid siege to the roads in the vicinity. Traffic came to a grinding halt for some time. The protesters raised slogans against the Central government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

CPI(M) State secretary P. Madhu said the State and Central governments were not taking steps to control the prices of petroleum products. There was a possibility that the petrol price might touch ₹130 a litre in a month.