Telugu Desam Party president N Chandrababu Naidu today led his party workers in a bicycle rally here in protest against the hike in price of petrol even as the TDP rank and file organised massive protests across Andhra Pradesh on the issue.
Mr. Naidu reached the Monda wholesale vegetable market at Secunderabad this morning and interacted with traders and consumers and enquired about the prices.
“Essential commodities have become out of reach of common people because of the abnormal spurt in prices. The hike in petrol price has only fuelled further rise in the prices of all commodities,” Mr. Chandrababu said on the occasion.
Blaming the Central and the State governments for failing to control price rise, the TDP chief vowed to continue the fight till prices were reined in.
From Monda market, the Leader of Opposition began the cycle rally and stopped at a petrol filling station en route.
He asked vehicle-users about the impact of the petro price hike.
Mr. Chandrababu donned the role of a petrol boy and filled fuel in a couple of vehicles. After driving an autorickshaw for a few meters, he again rode the bicycle and via Rashtrapati Road and DBR Mills to reach Indira Park where the TDP organised a massive ‘dharna’ protesting the price rise.
TDP cadres organised similar protests in all the Assembly constituencies in the State demanding that the government immediately reduce the petrol price and also take effective steps to bring down prices of essential commodities.
Meanwhile, former MP Y S Jaganmohan Reddy launched his ’Jana Deeksha’ on the Ramakrishna beach in Visakhapatnam protesting the hike in petrol price.
