Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stages protest over rise in prices of pertol, diesel
TNN Bureau. Updated: 9/20/2017 3:49:52 PM
Politics
The Aam Aadmi Party today staged a protest here over unprecedented rise in prices of petrol and diesel. Scores of AAP legislators gathered outside the Shastri Bhawan, which houses the Petroleum Ministry and demanded control over the price rise.
The MLAs were donning aprons with colourful slogans highlighting the steep hike in petrol and diesel prices. In a memorandum submitted to Union Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan by AAP's state convenor Gopal Rai, the party demanded that the Ministry should issue immediate instructions to oil companies to link petrol and diesel with the international market, and the huge profits being made by these companies be passed on to the public.
''The mandate of the public sector oil companies is to make fuel available to the common man at reasonable prices and not to profiteer like an unscrupulous, greedy corporate house," the party stated in its memorandum. Later, the protesting MLAs were taken away by the police. But the AAP claimed that their party MLAs were arrested. Yesterday, Delhi Congress had also announced that it would stage a massive protest in form of a human chain on September 21 against rise in prices of petrol and diesel.