BJP takes steps to ensure success of bundh in Mangalore

BJP takes steps to ensure success of bundh in Mangalore

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangalore, May 31, 2012: Determined that the call for a nationwide bundh issued by opposition parties at the centre in protest against the petrol price hike must be successful, the members of the district BJP distributed anti Congress pamphlets among the people at various points in Mangalore and urged them to join the BJP in its fight against the anti-people Congress government. 

Raghavendra, leader of the BJP Yuva Morcha, said that they spent a couple of hours creating awareness among the public by distributing pamphlets and urging them to make tomorrow’s bundh a success. He also said that BJP youth members visited hotels and shops and interacted with autorickshaw drivers.

 

Padmanabha Kottari, president of the DK district BJP, announced that BJP workers will be out on the roads to ensure that the central government hears the voice of the public. He said that the BJP wants the bundh to be a peaceful way of announcing to the central government that the people are not happy about the hike in petrol prices. He demanded to know why Indians have to pay such a high price for petrol when people of neighboring countries such as Bangladesh and Pakistan pay much lower prices. 

Stating that people are tired of inflation, he said that the price of food and essential commodities is also going up. He said that the BJP will make sure that the central government gets the message. 

Simultaneously, left parties along coastal Karnataka expressed their support for the nationwide bundh. Muneer Katipalla, DYFI leader, said that left parties will not impose the bundh on anybody, but will observe the day as a nationwide protest day. He also revealed the left parties’ plan to block trains at Mangalore Central Railway Station on Thursday at 9:00 a.m.