Chennai : Slamming the Centre for hiking the railway parcel rates by 25 per cent, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday termed it as "adding salt to injury," and demanded its immediate rollback.
"I condemn the hiking of luggage and parcel rates by the Centre in which the DMK is a constituent. This move amounts to adding salt to injury of the poor people who are already suffering due to the recent petrol price hike," she said in a statement.
Holding that commodities including medicines, pulses, flour varieties, tyres and magazines are transported through trains, she said the hike was therefore against the poor and middle-class citizens.
"I urge Centre to immediately rollback the hike," she said.
"I condemn the hiking of luggage and parcel rates by the Centre in which the DMK is a constituent. This move amounts to adding salt to injury of the poor people who are already suffering due to the recent petrol price hike," she said in a statement.
Holding that commodities including medicines, pulses, flour varieties, tyres and magazines are transported through trains, she said the hike was therefore against the poor and middle-class citizens.
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