Dmk Petrol Price Protest

Protests, marches and road blocks have been planned across the country.

As his party held protests against the new petrol prices in Tamil Nadu, the chief of the DMK, M Karunanidhi, warned the UPA to reverse the price hike announced last week. The DMK is a key member of the UPA coalition. "Don't push us further," Mr Karunanidhi warned the government that his party participates in. "The DMK will not hesitate to walk out ...

The sudden scarcity of petrol in Chennai is set to ease and Tamil Nadu's fuel story today will be the DMK's agitation against the steep hike in petrol prices announced last week. The DMK is a partner in the UPA government at the Centre, which has been attacked by opposition parties and allies alike over the hike.

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has announced an agitation over the petrol price hike across the state on May 29. The demonstration will be held at 52 places across the state from eleven in the morning in front of Central Government offices. Interestingly, this has been planned a day before the DMK's protest on May 30.

M Karunanidhi has hit back at detractors who have questioned the DMK's announcement of a protest against the petrol price hike on the 30th of this month. In his daily column in the party mouthpiece 'Murasoli', the DMK Chief has pointed out that "it's not just the DMK, but other allies like the NCP, TMC who have also protested. Even within the Congr...

A day after the expression of public anger over the steepest petrol price hike in a decade, the DMK, an ally of the UPA at the Centre, has announced "peaceful protest" in front of collector's offices across Tamil Nadu on May 30.

Petrol price hike

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today as the government grappled with the situation arising out of protests against the petrol price hike and demands from UPA allies like Trinamool Congress, DMK and NCP for a rollback.

The Rs 3 hike in petrol that kicked in at midnight provoked political and public outrage today. An immediate consequence was that the government deferred indefinitely a meeting of ministers that was to consider making cooking gas more expensive for the average household.

Two key allies of the UPA government - DMK and Trinamool Congress - on Thursday joined the Opposition in the Lok Sabha in criticising the hike in fuel prices

Protests, marches and road blocks have been planned across the country.

As his party held protests against the new petrol prices in Tamil Nadu, the chief of the DMK, M Karunanidhi, warned the UPA to reverse the price hike announced last week. The DMK is a key member of the UPA coalition. "Don't push us further," Mr Karunanidhi warned the government that his party participates in. "The DMK will not hesitate to walk out ...

The sudden scarcity of petrol in Chennai is set to ease and Tamil Nadu's fuel story today will be the DMK's agitation against the steep hike in petrol prices announced last week. The DMK is a partner in the UPA government at the Centre, which has been attacked by opposition parties and allies alike over the hike.

The ruling AIADMK in Tamil Nadu has announced an agitation over the petrol price hike across the state on May 29. The demonstration will be held at 52 places across the state from eleven in the morning in front of Central Government offices. Interestingly, this has been planned a day before the DMK's protest on May 30.

M Karunanidhi has hit back at detractors who have questioned the DMK's announcement of a protest against the petrol price hike on the 30th of this month. In his daily column in the party mouthpiece 'Murasoli', the DMK Chief has pointed out that "it's not just the DMK, but other allies like the NCP, TMC who have also protested. Even within the Congr...

A day after the expression of public anger over the steepest petrol price hike in a decade, the DMK, an ally of the UPA at the Centre, has announced "peaceful protest" in front of collector's offices across Tamil Nadu on May 30.

Petrol price hike

Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had a meeting with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today as the government grappled with the situation arising out of protests against the petrol price hike and demands from UPA allies like Trinamool Congress, DMK and NCP for a rollback.

The Rs 3 hike in petrol that kicked in at midnight provoked political and public outrage today. An immediate consequence was that the government deferred indefinitely a meeting of ministers that was to consider making cooking gas more expensive for the average household.

Two key allies of the UPA government - DMK and Trinamool Congress - on Thursday joined the Opposition in the Lok Sabha in criticising the hike in fuel prices