National strike on hike of fuel prices

2010-07-06 06:15:59 - 6 July 2010 -New Delhi - Sagar Media -Nksagar - -NDA said that it will take-up the issue in the coming Monsoon session of Parliament. Addressing a joint press conference with JDU chief, Sharad Yadav, BJP President, Nitin Gadkari reiterated the demand of rollback of hike in petroleum prices in the larger interest of the public.

The entire Opposition has called a national strike 5 July against the recent Rs 2 per litre hike in diesel prices and decontrolling of petrol prices that led to an increase in price by Rs 3.5 a litre.

Left parties said that the response to the bandh should serve as a warning to the government not to heap burden on the people. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, the CPI(M) general secretary, Prakash Karat said that it is a message to the government to reverse its policy and roll back the prices of petroleum products. CPI leader A.B Bardhan threatened to continue the stir against price rise in the month of July.

FICCI said most of the industrial activities remained shut in Bangalore and majority of MNCs and IT firms preferred to give a holiday to their employees. In Mumbai, transport services were completely affected and traders were mostly off the market.

Congress has claimed the Bharat- Bandh as a complete flop, the Opposition described that it was a grand success. Talking to reporters in New Delhi, the Congress party spokesman, Mr. Abhishek Manusinghvi accused the BJP and the Left run state governments of instigating violence. Calling the bandh as unconstitutional, he said that it does not provide any concrete solution to the problem of inflation. Defending the recent hike in fuel prices, Mr. Singhvi said that the increase has been minimal and most reasonable.

PHD Chamber catering mainly to the northern states, said the impact was felt in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and UP. Banking services were completely paralysed in Left governed West Bengal and Kerala while some disruptions were noticed in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Mumbai.

Mumbai, the financial capital of the country, and several industrialised states including Maharashtra, Gujarat, were affected, the impact was partial in many other states like Tamil Nadu and in the national capital Delhi. The 12-hour strike was called by the Opposition parties to protest the fuel price hike and rising inflation.
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