Police firing water cannon and tear gas at Congress workers during the District Congress Committee’s Kanayannur Taluk office march in protest against the State Budget on Tuesday.
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The LDF government is using the cess on petrol and diesel to swindle people of even their last dimes, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) vice-president V.J. Paulose said here on Tuesday. He was addressing a rally organised by the District Congress Committee (DCC) to the Kanayannur taluk office demanding the rollback of fuel cess.
The government is imposing the burden of its inefficiency and tendency to splurge on the ordinary people by charging heavy taxes on a range of facilities such as houses and drinking water, he alleged.
The Congress will intensify its agitation against the “anti-people” provisions in the State Budget, and the party is ready to fill the streets and lockups until those provisions were withdrawn, he said.
A few party workers sustained…