Leaders and employees of the Gujarat Congress staged demonstrations throughout the state.
Ahmedabad:
More than 100 Congress employees, MLAs and leaders had been detained in numerous elements of Gujarat on Friday for staging with out police permission protests towards the central authorities over the rise in gas costs, an official stated.
Leaders and employees of the Gujarat Congress staged demonstrations in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Bharuch, Palanpur and Vadodara as a part of a nationwide name given by the occasion excessive command to protest towards the excessive petrol and diesel costs.
While the occasion’s state president Amit Chavda led the agitation in Gandhinagar, former state unit chief Bharatsinh Solanki took half within the occasion’s protest in Vadodara, the place employees pulled a automobile utilizing ropes.
In Ahmedabad, senior MLA and deputy Leader of Opposition Shailesh Parmar led the agitation.
According to the police, greater than 100 Congress employees in numerous cities have been detained for staging protests with out permission.
Mr Chavda and 40 different agitators had been detained from their protest venue close to Satyagrah Chhavni floor in Gandhinagar, deputy superintendent of police, Gandhinagar, M Ok Rana stated.
“We have detained around 40 Congress workers, including Amit Chavda and Gandhinagar legislator C J Chavda, for organising the programme without police permission and that too amid the coronavirus pandemic,” Mr Rana stated, including {that a} resolution to launch the employees will likely be taken quickly by senior officers.
In Vadodara, the police detained Solanki and 20 different Congress employees for a short interval, and related detentions happened in different elements of the state, an official stated, including that 20 employees had been detained in Rajkot metropolis.
Talking to reporters earlier than his detention, MLA Parmar stated that petrol and diesel costs had been growing continually after the BJP got here to energy on the Centre in 2014.
“On the one hand, the fuel prices are increasing, on the other hand, people are losing jobs and there is high inflation. The BJP government isn’t doing anything to give respite to people. We want the government to either reduce the excise duty on fuel or bring it under the GST, so that the prices come down,” Mr Parmar stated.
