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Left, Opposition flay petro price hike
Our Bureau
New Delhi
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Nov. 5
THE Left and several Opposition parties, including the BJP, on Friday condemned the UPA Government's decision to hike petrol, diesel and LPG prices.
Attacking the UPA Government, the BJP dubbed it as an ``inflation-filled Diwali gift'' to the people.
The party Vice-President, Mr Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, said the ruling coalition was ``increasingly putting the burden on the common people.''
``The way the prices have been raised is shameful,'' he said, adding that the issue would be discussed at the party's National Executive on November 24.
Emerging out of the CPI(M)'s weekly State Secretariat meeting, the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Jyoti Basu, said that he was quite surprised by the development and would be talking to other leaders of the Left before deciding the next course of action. He said the possibility of a nation-wide agitation against the hike could not be ruled out.
``We will hold demonstrations all over the nation to protest the price rise. We had asked them not to do it now and that it can be considered later. But I saw in the newspaper today that the Government had effected it,'' Mr Basu said.
The Left claims the Government did not explore the alternatives suggested by them. These included possible customs and excise duty cuts.
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