Kochi: The Congress is planning a nationwide protest against the increasing fuel prices, senior party leader Ramesh Chennithala said here on Friday as he attacked the BJP-led government at the Centre over the soaring prices of diesel and petrol.
The Leader of Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, who is leading the ‘Aiswarya Kerala Yatra’ to prepare the ground for Congress-led UDF ahead of the Assembly polls, urged the centre and state governments to lower the excise duty on diesel and petrol to ease the burden on the people.
“The Congress is planning an all India protest, if the prices of fuel continue to soar on an uncontrolled level,” Chennithala told reporters here as he commenced today’s yatra in Ernakulam district.
He alleged that the BJP-led government at the Centre and the LDF government in Kerala were indulging in profiteering instead of passing on benefits of low prices of crude oil to consumers by reducing the hiked rates of petrol-diesel-LPG gas.
The senior…