Protesting against the sharp rise in the petrol and diesel prices, and accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of utter failure in controlling them, the Telangana Youth Congress took out a rally and burnt the effigy of the Prime Minister.
Led by its president Anil Kumar Yadav, the activists symbolically placed bikes on the pushcarts and took out a rally from Gandhi Bhavan to Nampally. However, police personnel stopped the rally leading to scuffle between the police and the protesting activists.
Mr. Anil Kumar Yadav said the rising fuel prices reflected the failure of the Central government and Mr. Modi who promised moon and failed to deliver. In the last four years prices have risen to highest-ever in the country hitting the middle class and lower middle classes and lakhs of people depended on them indirectly.
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He demanded that petrol and diesel prices be brought under GST like other commodities and questioned as to why the government was afraid to do that.