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BJP stir throws traffic out of gear
NORMAL TRAFFIC on the national highway number 28 came to a grinding halt for two hours due to blockade by BJP activists who launched nationwide ?chakka jam? and dharna against the hike in petroleum prices here on Saturday. Thousands of BJP activists took out a procession from the party office, burnt effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and blocked the traffic movement at Nausarh crossing.
NORMAL TRAFFIC on the national highway number 28 came to a grinding halt for two hours due to blockade by BJP activists who launched nationwide ‘chakka jam’ and dharna against the hike in petroleum prices here on Saturday.
Thousands of BJP activists took out a procession from the party office, burnt effigy of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and blocked the traffic movement at Nausarh crossing. They shouted slogans against Union Government and demanded withdrawal of hiked prices of petroleum products.
Party leaders criticized Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and said that the incapability of the UPA government to check aprice rise was exposed due to seventh time hike in petroleum prices during the two-year tenure of the government. Addressing the agitators, former cabinet minister Shivpratap Shukla said that hike in prices petroleum products would have far-reaching consequences, and common man would suffer.
He said that the BJP would mobilise the support of common man against the anti-people decision of the government.
Criticising the Left parties, Shukla said that the Left parties were shedding crocodile tears over price rise. He also said that it was difficult to comprehend the real character of the Left parties and appealed to the people to give a befitting reply to the Congress led Union Government .
A large number of party workers took the street and participated in road blockade. They decided to intensify their agitation against the government.
Representative of the BJP MP Shital Pandey condemned Manmohan Singh government for sabotaging the weaker section of the society and protecting capitalists. Party leader Mahesh Shahi, Chiranjivi Chaurasi, Ram Karan Nishad, Vijay Shanker Srivastav, Manzoor Khan, Abhimanyu Pandey, Shailendra Singh and others demanded that excise duty on petroleum product should be reduced.
The speakers said that the UPA government had miserably failed on economic front.
