Left looks for non-BJP force to protest fuel price hike

The Left seems to be looking for a non-BJP force to protest diesel price hike. In addition to calling upon its units to organise protests, it is consulting other like-minded political parties.

“The CPI(M) calls upon all its units to organise strong protests against the imposition of such severe economic burden. All secular opposition forces (must) unite to force the UPA II government to roll back this unreasonable hike in the prices of diesel and limiting cooking gas cylinders,” CPM said in a statement on Friday.

“We have called upon our district units to protest against the hike. We will also talk to other political parties for joint protest against the hike,” Polit Bureau member Sitaram Yechury told media persons.

CPM Polit Bureau member Brinda Karat said it is “convenient to be absent from the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) where you could have opposed it and then organise street-protests.”