Kakinada, June 9 -- Leaders and activists of Left parties on Tuesday staged a rasta roko near the Ambedkar statue at Indrapalem Lock in Kakinada, protesting against the recent increase in petrol, diesel and cooking gas prices.
The protest disrupted vehicular traffic on the busy Kakinada-Samalkot road for some time as demonstrators raised slogans demanding an immediate rollback of the fuel price hike and allocation of a 50 per cent share of natural gas produced in the Krishna-Godavari (KG) Basin to Andhra Pradesh.
Addressing the gathering, CPI(M) district secretary Karanam Prasada Rao, CPI district joint secretary Thokala Prasad, CPI(ML) New Democracy United East Godavari district secretary J. Venkateswarlu and CPI(ML) Liberation state com...