Saturday, September 17, 2011: The CPM-ledLeft Democratic Front and the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday called for a hartal on Monday to protest the recent hike in petrol price. The LDF decision was taken at a front meeting held here today.
Briefing reporters after the LDF State committee meeting, Front convener Vaikom Viswan said that the State government’s gesture, while significant in itself, was not the right solution for the free-pricing regime under which the oil companies were indulging in indiscriminate spike in the prices of petroleum products. The price of petrol had gone up by Rs. 23.83 a litre after the administered pricing mechanism was scrapped, he pointed out.
Meanwhile, the dawn-to-dusk hartal organised by Left Democratic Front (LDF) as a protest against the police action on DYFI, SFI activists yesterday, caused considerable difficulties to the general public on Saturday.
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