By TCN News,
New Delhi: The Welfare Party of India has termed as anti-people the heaviest increase in diesel price in post-independence India and restricting the supply of subsidised cooking gas cylinders to six per household in a year. The party said the move is “aimed at appeasing the corporate oil giants” and demanded its immediate roll back.
Dr. S. Q. R. Ilyas, general secretary of Welfare Party said that the sharpest hike of Rs 5/ per litre will aggravate inflation and will cause fiscal chaos in the country. He added that restricting the supply of subsidised cooking cylinders will adversely affect the household budget of middle income families.
Welfare Party strongly criticized the government for outright admitting “dubious figures of loss presented by the oil companies and passing on the same to common men.” The Party demanded revamping of public sector oil companies and initiating enquiry about the functioning of the oil companies, both private and public. The Party demanded restructuring tax on petroleum products so as to minimize the burden on aam admi.
“If the unjustifiable increase is not taken back, people will be forced to march to the oil companies and occupy them as like the Occupy Wall Street movement,” he reminded.