Cong does puja to LPG cylinders

NT Correspondent

In response to the call given by the All India Congress Committee (AICC) to hold a countrywide dharna against price rise, Karnataka leaders, under the umbrella of Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) staged a dharna in front of the party office in Bengaluru on Thursday.

AICC General Secretary i Randeep Singh Surjewala, Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah, KPCC President D.K. Shivakumar, KPCC Working Presidents Ramalinga Reddy, R.Dhruvanarayana and Salim Ahmed, Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council B.K. Hariprasad and others participated in the protest by offering flowers and performing pooja to LPG cylinders and a twowheeler symbolically to slam the Union government on price rise.

The leaders raised slogans against the BJP led NDA government for making the life of the common man miserable. The price of LPG had been hiked by more than Rs 500 to Rs 600 in the last six to seven years and the price of petrol has breached the Rs 100 mark. On the one hand, the income of people is declining and on the other hand, expenditure is increasing. The time has come to make India BJP Mukt in the interest of one and all, they said.