Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 11: Jammu West Assembly Movement (JWAM) took out a protest rally from Janipur to Amphalla via High Court Road and New Plot, against the acute shortage of LPG gas cylinders, rising prices of diesel, petrol and essential commodities.
During the protest rally scuffle took place between the protestors and the police, which tried its best to stop the rally.
Led by JWAM president, Sunil Dimple, hundreds of irate residents, traders and poor masses staged dharna in the middle of the road to express their anger against the State and Central Government for their anti-people policies.
Addressing the protestors, Dimple said that common man of the State has been badly affected by the recent hike in the non-subidisized LPG cylinders, due to which poor people cannot even afford to cook their two times meal.
Dimple alleged that the distributors of LPG cylinders are busy in selling the LPG cylinders in black to hotliers, restaurants, dhabbas, meant for domestic use while the Civil administration which is well aware of this, has not taken any steps to overcome the problems of innocent consumers.
The JWAM president demanded the State Government, civil administration, vigilance, police and Directorate, CAPD, to constitute the flying squads and immediate conduct the raids on the godowns of LPG distributors in the Jammu region.
He warned the LPG distributors, HP, IOC and other agencies to stop black marketing of LPG cylinders and restore the home delivery of the cooking gas immediately otherwise the activists would gherao the offices of distributors.
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