SUCI opposes proposed move to deregulate petrol-diesel prices and drastically raise cooking gas and kerosene prices and calls for resisting the same under pressure of powerful democratic movement

Strongly deploring the recommendation of the government-constituted expert panel to remove government control over petrol and diesel prices and drastically increase the prices of cooking gas and kerosene under the flimsy pretext of rescuing oil companies from bearing increased cost burden and relieving the government from subsidizing fuel tariff, Comrade Nihar Mukherjee, General Secretary, SUCI (Communist), in course of a statement issued on 04 February, 2010 termed it as another demonic attack of the Congress-led UPA government on the common people reeling under unprecedented continual spurt in the prices of food items and other essential commodities.

This clearly shows how this Congress-led government is bent upon delivering one after another deadly blow under this or that plea to the toiling masses constituting over 90% of the population whose real income is plummeting day by day, while it at the same time is offering plethora of concessions, waivers, packages and amnesty to the monopolists and corporate bigwigs whose fortunes are swelling.

Calling upon the countrymen not to be misled by the mischievous propaganda and mala fide argumentation of the capitalist government but to come forward to develop powerful resistance movement against the government’s pernicious move to decontrol or deregulate petrol-diesel prices and jack up prices of cooking gas and kerosene, Comrade Mukherjee also urged them to realize that except building up united militant democratic movements, they have no other means to defend themselves against repeated bouts of brutal assaults by the capitalist state and government.

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