Panaji, Jul 8: As a part of ongoing nationwide agitation launched by Congress Party, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) along with Mahila Congress and Youth Congress took out a rally from Congress House to Collector Office in the city.
The rally was to register a strong opposition against the spiraling rise in the price of petrol and diesel and also an increase in the prices of essential commodities including edible oil and cooking Gas.
The rally was attended by GPCC President Girish Chodankar, Vice President and in Incharge of agitational program Altinho Gomes, General Secretary Amarnath Panjikar and Beena Naik, Mahila Congress Chief along with Youth Congress President Advocate Varad Mardolkar, and South Goa District President Joe Dias.
Addressing the Congress functionaries who participated in the rally, GPCC President Girish Chodankar said Union Government has accepted collecting Rs 2 lakh crores in the financial year 2022 as incremental income from petrol and diesel, excise duties, and cess.
”As of 2nd of June there were 43 hikes over the year in fuel prices and there are 16 hikes in the month of May. The government’s tax collection on just petrol and diesel alone has increased 300 percent in the last six years. The impact of the fuel price hike and cooking gas has hit the common man,” he said
He demanded that the petrol price should cut down to Rs 35.63 per liter and diesel at Rs 38.16 per liter.
Others who spoke were Altinho Gomes, Vice President and in charge of agitational program, Mahila Congress president Beena Naik, Adv Varad Mardolkar, Youth Congress President and Adv Archit Naik State General Secretary Youth Congress. (UNI)