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Autorickshaw workers nether the banner of the Vijayawada City Auto Workers Union, affiliated to the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU), staged a protestation adjacent the Railway Station Clock Tower successful Vijayawada connected Tuesday, demanding an contiguous rollback of the caller hikes successful CNG prices.
Raising slogans against the summation successful substance rates, the protesters alleged that the escalating outgo of CNG was severely affecting the livelihoods of autorickshaw and centrifugal transport workers. They urged the authorities to intervene and modulate substance prices to supply alleviation to the transport sector.
Addressing the gathering, Vijayawada City Auto Workers Union wide caput K. Durga Rao and Central City CITU president M. V. Sudhakar said a important information of drivers’ regular net was being consumed by substance expenses owed to the continuous emergence successful petrol, diesel and CNG prices.
They alleged that authorities policies were placing an undue load connected transport workers portion favouring firm interests. Instead of reducing substance prices during a play of economical hardship, the authorities were permitting repeated hikes, pushing galore drivers and transport workers into fiscal distress, they said.
The leaders noted that the crisp summation successful operational costs had made it progressively hard for workers to prolong their livelihoods. Some drivers were adjacent considering leaving the assemblage altogether, they added. They warned that the situation facing transport workers would worsen unless substance prices were brought nether control.
Among those who participated successful the protestation were Central City Auto Workers Union wide caput M. Hanumantha Rao, Railway Station Auto Workers Union leaders D. Kotayya and A. V. Reddy, and national members R. Subbaraju, M. Prabhudasu, D. Srinivasa Reddy, S. K. Nagoor, V. Ramarao, K. Srinivasa Rao, Saifulla and others.
