The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) on Sunday launched an agitation against rising prices of fuel and other essential commodities and submitted a memorandum addressed to the President to the governor.
Hundreds of BJD workers rode cycles and rickshaws to reach the protest site near the Raj Bhavan. The women members of the party were seen cooking food in the traditional chuli instead of LPG cylinders and questioned where the “achchhe din” promised by the Narendra Modi government were.
The protest coincided with the price of petrol crossing Rs 110 per litre in Bhubaneswar and Rs 115 in the tribal-dominated Malkangiri district.
