Hyderabad:
The ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) held protest demonstrations across Telangana on Thursday against the increase in the price of LPG cylinders and requested the Center to reverse the increased amount.
BRS ministers including T Harish Rao, Mohd Mahmood Ali, T Srinivas Yadav, V Prashant Reddy, V Srinivas Goud, G Jagadish Reddy, E Dayakar Rao, party leaders and workers participated in protests organized in Hyderabad and other places in the stands .
Telangana Minister KT Rama Rao tweeted, “Congratulations to the “Double Engine” NPA Government on successfully tripling LPG cylinder prices”.
The demonstrators, including women, squat on roads with LPG bottles.
The agitators also blocked roads in some places and raised slogans while holding signs reading “BJP ko hatao- Desk ko bachao” and “Modi Sarkar Down Down”.
The price of cooking gas was raised by Rs 50 per cylinder on Wednesday – the first increase in rates in nearly eight months – that came within days of the end of polls in three northeastern states
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