Left, VCK jointly stage demo against LPG price hike, job cut move

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Communists and VCK cadre staging a dharna successful  Tirunelveli connected  Monday.

Communists and VCK cadre staging a dharna successful Tirunelveli connected Monday. | Photo Credit: A. SHAIKMOHIDEEN

Condemning the unprecedented terms hike of commercialized liquefied petroleum state cylinders and the hold successful the organisation of the commercialized and home LPG cylinders, the Left parties and the Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi jointly organised objection present connected Monday.

The protesters said the terms hike of commercialized LPG cylinders by the Union Government had deed hard the communal antheral aft the restaurants and adjacent the roadside eateries had accrued the prices of the dishes they serve. Moreover, the migrant labourers relying upon these cylinders had been earnestly affected adjacent arsenic the prices of indispensable commodities had accrued manifold successful the past 2 years.

Hence, the Union Government should rotation backmost the accrued terms of commercialized LPG cylinders and urged the authorities not to hike the substance terms immoderate further, the protesters said.

They said the hold successful organisation of LPG cylinders by the lipid companies was a classical impervious for the “agonizing failure” of Ministry of Petroleum which did not foresee the problems arising retired of the warfare successful West Asia.

They besides condemned the Ministry of Railways’ determination “to chopped 29,000 jobs successful Indian Railways” successful the guise of manpower rationalisation to amended efficiency. The determination to “surrender oregon redistribute the 29,508 jobs” of Indian Railways, which was 2% of the full workforce of Indian Railways during the existent fiscal, would severely demoralise the qualified unemployed youth, they warned.

Published - May 11, 2026 07:51 p.m. IST

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