INDIAN LEFT FRONT PROTESTS AGAINST FUEL PRICE HIKE
By ANIThursday, December 16, 2010
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Indian Left Front protests against fuel price hike.
The Indian Left front condemns the recent hike in prices of petrol and is all set to put pressure on the federal government to roll back the prices by staging protests across the country.
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HYDERABAD, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA (DECEMBER 15, 2010) (ANI-NO ACCESS BBC)
1. CHANDRABABU NAIDU, CHIEF OF TELUGU DESAM PARTY (TDP), ARRIVING
2. ‘CPI’ (COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA) WRITTEN ON A WALL
3. VARIOUS LEADERS OF THE LEFT FRONT IN A MEETING
4. NAIDU TALKING TO OTHERS DURING THE MEET
5. LEADERS IN THE MEETING
6. NAIDU TALKING TO REPORTERS
7. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHANDRABABU NAIDU, CHIEF OF TELUGU DESAM PARTY (TDP), SAYING: “Petrol price, we are condemning. Everywhere we are immediately protesting. We strongly feel they have to be withdrawn.”
8. NAIDU AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE
9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PRAKASH KARAT, GENERAL SECRETARY OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA-MARXIST (CPI-M), SAYING: “They have deregulated the petrol price. We had opposed the deregulation. Now they are saying it will depend on the market prices. Already, six times the hike in the petrol prices had taken place; about nine rupees had been increased on the price of petrol alone after deregulation and as Shree Chandrababu Naidu explained, this is going to be fueling more inflation, more price rise, more suffering for the people.”
10. NAIDU TALKING TO REPORTERS
11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) A. B. BARDHAN, GENERAL SECRETARY OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (CPI), SAYING:”As Chandrababu has explained, Hyderabad is the beginning; we are starting the whole campaign from here, holding of rallies. This will be followed by rallies elsewhere also but soon after we will announce the dates for other rallies. We are contacting other parties, which date suits them, accordingly we will decide.”
12. A. B. BARDHAN, GENERAL SECRETARY OF COMMUNIST PARTY OF INDIA (CPI), TALKING TO REPORTERS
STORY: The Left front of India condemned the recent hike in the prices of petrol on Wednesday (December 15) and is all set to put pressure on the federal government to roll back the prices by staging countrywide protests.
Chandrababu Naidu, chief of Telugu Desam Party (TDP) said that the federal government would have to rollback the prices.
“Petrol price, we are condemning. Everywhere we are immediately protesting. We strongly feel they have to be withdrawn,” said Naidu while addressing a press conference in southern Hyderabad city.
Along with him, Prakash Karat, general secretary of Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and A. B. Bardhan, general secretary of Communist Party of India (CPI) were also present at the media briefing.
Karat said that deregulation of petrol prices was resulting in creating an inflationary situation in the country.
“They have deregulated the petrol price. We had opposed the deregulation. Now they are saying it will depend on the market prices. Already, six times the hike in the petrol prices had taken place; about nine rupees had been increased on the price of petrol alone after deregulation and as Shree Chandrababu Naidu explained, this is going to be fueling more inflation, more price rise, more suffering for the people,” said Karat.
Bardhan warned about the future rallies to be held across the country.
“As Chandrababu has explained, Hyderabad is the beginning; we are starting the whole campaign from here, holding of rallies. This will be followed by rallies elsewhere also but soon after we will announce the dates for other rallies. We are contacting other parties, which date suits them, accordingly we will decide,” said Bardhan.
State-run oil retailers raised petrol prices at midnight on Wednesday by close to three rupees, the most in six months, while the government also plans to increase diesel prices.
The revised Petrol prices in New Delhi are Rs 55.87 ($1.24) per litre, in Mumbai Rs 60.27 ($1.33) and Rs 59.77 ($1.32) in Kolkata city.
The hiked fuel price in southern Bangalore city is Rs 62.62 ($1.38) and Rs 60.40 ($1.33) per litre in Chennai city.
India’s wholesale price index rose to 7.48 percent in November from a year earlier, compared with 8.58 percent in October.
U.S. crude for January delivery fell 33 cents to settle at $88.28 a barrel. Prices reached a 26-month high of $90.76 on December 7.
