[Marxistindia] Protest the Price Hike of Gas Cylinders

[news from the cpi(m)]

April 8, 2025

Press Statement

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued the
following statement:

Protest the Price Hike of Gas Cylinders

The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns the huge
increase in the price of gas cylinders and the imposition of special excise
duty on petrol and diesel. 

The Union government announced a Rs 50 hike in the price of gas cylinders
for both general and subsidised categories, burdening the people by around
Rs. 7,000 crores. Further, the government increased the special excise duty
of petrol and diesel to the tune of Rs. 32,000 crores.   

The rise in gas prices are bound to have a crippling impact on the already
burdened lives of the people due to inflation. Instead of passing the
benefits of falling international prices of oil and gas to the people, the
government is imposing additional burdens. In the name of special excise
duty, it wants to accrue all the revenues for itself violating the federal
principles.

The CPI(M) demands the government to immediately rollback the prices and
calls upon all its units to protest against this decision of the central
government.

 

 

(Muralidharan)

For CPI(M) Central Committee office

 

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