Riding horse-carts and bicycles, Congress leaders across the country led protests against the daily increase in fuel prices with party chief Sonia Gandhi terming it as a new form of extortion.
Congress leaders fanned out across cities with microphones and video cameras in hand, seeking views of citizens on fuel prices that have seen increase for the past three weeks and were retailing at more than Rs 80 per litre.
Senior Congress leaders KC Venugopal, Rajeev Satav, and Manickam Tagore rode bicycles from the AICC headquarters to Parliament, while Delhi Congress chief Anil Chaudhary set off the city streets on a horse-cart waving banner protesting the successive increase in petrol and diesel prices.
