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The Communist Party of India (CPI) staged a protestation against the summation successful petrol, diesel, and commercialized LPG cylinder prices astatine the Gandhi Bomma Centre successful Chittoor connected Friday (May 15, 2026).
CPI territory caput S. Nagaraju said that the rising substance and state prices had overburdened the middle-class and mediocre families, who were already struggling with the expanding outgo of living.
Nagaraju said the hike successful commercialized LPG cylinder prices had severely affected tiny hotels, beverage stalls, and roadside eateries. As a result, the prices of communal nutrient items specified arsenic idli, dosa, and beverage has besides increased, helium said.
Criticising the NDA government’s “double standards” connected substance terms hike, the CPI person said that it was a betrayal of the people. The Centre, which kept the prices nether power during the predetermination period, hiked them aft the polling ended. CPI activists demanded that the Centre instantly rotation backmost the substance and LPG terms hike.
