BJP demands roll back of petrol price hike

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Allahabad, Jun 8: BJP today once again urged the central government to roll back the fuel price hike announced on Monday in the ''greater interest of the common people.'' Talking to newsmen here, BJP national spokesman Prakash Javedkar said the price hike in petrol and diesel was unjustified and anti-people. ''Prices of petroleum products are highest in India.'' He maintained BJP had already launched a nationwide agitation against the ''additional burden'' on the masses and would continue it till the government reverted its decision.

Mr Javedkar advised the UPA government to minimise taxes, the highest in the world, on petrol and diesel, so that prices come down automatically.

Expressing concern on the exodus of Hindus from Doda in Jammu&Kashmir, he said his party had launched a 'Doda Bachao, Kashmir Bachao' movement, in which party workers from different states were participating.

''The centre has surrendered before the terrorists and Hindus in Doda, Poonch and Rajouri are being attacked under a well hatched conspiracy,'' he alleged.

He also asked the government to take concrete steps to save Hindus and check their exodus from the valley.'' Mr Javedkar lambasted the Uttar Pradesh regime as anti-people, where no one was secure. ''People are fed-up with the Samajwadi Party government and are in search of a viable alternative.'' ''UP chief minister and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav should forget dreaming of forming the next government in the state,'' he claimed.

The BJP leader said the party was working hard to strengthen the organisation, asserting the party would win maximum number of seats in the UP assembly polls and form the next government.

On the quota issue, Mr Javedkar claimed BJP's stand on the issue was clear that economically weak among the upper castes should also get the benefit of reservation.

''When BJP was in power at the centre, it had planned to open seven new AIIMS, IITs and IIMs. But, the Congress-led government scrapped that idea.'' Scoffing at Congress, Mr Javedkar alleged the party was playing vote politics on the issue of reservation and dividing people on basis of caste.

UNI

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