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BJP calls for Delhi shutdown to protest price rise
Published on Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:38 in India section
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New Delhi: The Bharatiaya Janata Party's (BJP) Delhi unit has called for a city-wide shutdown on Friday to protest the rising prices of essential items and hike in fares of buses and metro.
Senior party leaders Vijay Kumar Malhotra, Vijay Goel, Madan Lal Khurana and former Delhi BJP chief Harshvardhan, appearing together at a press conference, appealed to Delhiites to make the protest successful.
The leaders requested the traders, industrialists, parents, students, workers and workmen of unorganised sectors to support their agitation.
However, they said essential services and transport have been kept out of the purview of the agitation.
The BJP leaders alleged that the Delhi government has taken about half a dozen such anti-people decisions, including increasing school fees and the Metro and bus fares. Because of these, Delhiites are suffering from an economic burden.
They demanded a rollback of hiked bus and metro fares, enquiry into the bungling in sugar, strengthening of the public distribution system (PDS) and that the government should make all the essential consumer goods available through the PDS on cheap rates.
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HA HA... wat is the use in protesting????.Protesting is just an eye wash!!.Practically,protesting is useless!,if the BJP has real concerns
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Dear Friend,
Price rise is an issue and kindly don\'t be cynical on BJP governments or leaders.
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Because it is a convenient tool to went their ire against their opponents not getting caught for illegal act when
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Will the bandh bring the prices down? NO. Then why does BJP want to trouble the daily wage earners? Poor
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other laughing I\'m surprised that kumakaran has finally got up for its sleep but worry is that he will soon
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