Members of the Mandya Lok Sabha Youth Congress Committee staged a demonstration here on Friday, condemning the increase in prices of petrol, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas cylinders.
Former Minister M.S. Atmananda led the protest.
They staged the protest near Sri Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar Circle, off the Bengaluru-Mysuru Highway, raised slogans against the Union government for the hike in fuel and LPG prices, and burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Union government has been “regularly and mindlessly” hiking the petroleum prices, Mr. Atmananda, who is also president of the Mandya District Congress Committee, said.
The Union government has failed in keeping its election promises and also maintaining a check on the spiralling prices of essential commodities. It has adopted ‘anti-people’ and ‘anti-poor’ financial policies, which are a burden on the common man, he criticised. If the Union government did not withdraw the price hike, the party would intensify the protests, Mr. Atmananda said.
