Congress workers protest rising fuel prices, burn PM Modi’s effigy in Mohali

Tribune News Service

Mohali, July 2

Congress party workers today burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Phase 7 light point here to protest the rising fuel prices and inflation.

Led by district Congress (urban) president Jaspreet Singh Gill, the protestors raised slogans against the Modi government for its failure to control the prices of fuel and other essential items.

Addressing the protestors, Gill said: “In the last seven years, the Union Government has given nothing but false promises to the people of the country.”

“The Modi-led BJP government is sucking the blood of common man,” said Gill.

“While lakhs of people have lost their jobs due to the Covid pandemic in the past more than one year, those who have not lost their jobs suffered salary cuts,” he said, adding that keeping in view the economic condition of the people amid the pandemic, the Centre should “immediately reduce the prices of petrol, diesel and gas by decreasing the taxes and provide some relief to the common man”.

Mayor Amarjit Singh Sidhu, Senior Deputy Mayor Amrik Singh Somal, Deputy Mayor Kuljit Singh Bedi, Youth Congress president Kanwarbir Singh Sidhu, District Congress (Urban) president Mohan Singh Bathlana and Municipal Corporation councillors also participated in the protest.