SUCI(C) stages protest in Kurugodu against fuel price hike

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Activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) staging a protestation  astatine  Kurugodu successful  Ballari territory  against the hike successful  petrol and diesel prices.

Activists of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) staging a protestation astatine Kurugodu successful Ballari territory against the hike successful petrol and diesel prices. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Members of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) [SUCI(C)] staged a protestation astatine Kurugodu municipality successful Ballari territory connected Sunday condemning the caller summation successful petrol and diesel prices and expressing choler against the Central government.

The protesters criticised the determination of government-owned lipid companies to summation petrol and diesel prices by ₹3 per litre each and termed the determination anti-people.

Speaking during the protest, enactment leaders said that the hike successful substance prices volition pb to ostentation by expanding the prices of indispensable commodities and proscription costs.

They said that the BJP-led Central authorities is attempting to warrant the substance terms hike by citing the ongoing struggle involving the United States, Israel and Iran.

They said that India mislaid an accidental to acquisition crude lipid from Russia astatine concessional rates owed to unit from the United States.

The protesters besides said that astir fractional of the retail terms of petrol and diesel comprised taxes imposed by the Central and State governments.

They demanded contiguous simplification successful taxes connected substance by some the Central and State governments and urged the authorities to wantonness the argumentation of fixing global-level prices for petrol and diesel refined and produced wrong the state for the payment of lipid companies.

The protesters besides called upon India to exert unit connected the United States to halt interference successful the interior affairs of different countries and enactment towards ending the war.

Kurugodu section committee caput Govind, committee members Guralli Raja and Manikantha and workers Ambareesh, Kuri Mallayya, Veeresh, Tippeswamy, Basavaraj and Srinivas, among others, participated successful the protest.

Published - May 18, 2026 06:34 p.m. IST

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