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Rumours of a shortage of petroleum products and liquefied petroleum state (LPG) owed to the West Asia struggle dispersed panic among locals successful respective areas of Lakhimpur Kheri successful Uttar Pradesh, starring to agelong queues astatine galore petrol pumps connected Friday (March 6, 2026), officials said.
People crowded filling stations to acquisition petrol and diesel successful the Nighasan, Pallia, and Bhira areas.
However, territory proviso serviceman Anjani Kumar Singh dismissed the rumours arsenic baseless and said determination was capable banal of substance successful the district.
“The rumours unfounded,” the serviceman said, adding that radical should acquisition substance arsenic per their needs and not panic. He warned that strict enactment volition beryllium taken against anyone recovered hoarding petroleum products.
District Magistrate Durga Shakti Nagpal took cognisance of the rumours and appealed to radical to stay calm, assuring that the proviso of petrol and diesel successful the territory was normal.
Kheri Petroleum Traders Association territory president Abhishek Dixit said determination was nary substance situation successful the territory and capable banal was disposable astatine petrol pumps to conscionable user demand.
Arun Kumar Singh, territory president of the LPG distributors’ association, said determination was capable LPG stock.
