To protest the recent hike in excise duty on petrol and diesel, UP Congress leaders and workers staged demonstrations at all district headquarters on Monday.
Chief of party’s Lucknow unit Mukesh Singh Chauhan and a sizeable number of workers staged demonstration at the GPO Park in Hazratganj.
“The hike in excise duty has adversely affected the lives of poor, farmers, labourers. Congress, which has been continuously fighting for the deprived sections, registered strong protest against the Union governments’ move,” Chauhan said while attacking the Narendra Modi government.
The Congress leader said that the Centre was working against the interests of common man and even after continuous fall in international prices of crude oil, the government was not forwarding the benefit to consumers and instead minting money by increasing excise duty and other taxes.
