LPG price hike: Mamata calls for protests, Sidda seeks PM Modi's ouster

KOLKATA/RANCHI/BENGALURU: Several opposition-governed states mounted a scathing onslaught connected the Centre implicit the summation successful LPG cylinder prices, with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee asking women crossed the authorities to clasp protests and her Karnataka counterpart Siddaramaiah calling for PM Modi's resignation.In poll-bound Bengal, Mamata, focusing connected her party's women ballot bank, weaved the contented of rising room costs with SIR deletions. She urged women crossed the authorities to people Women's Day by organising rallies successful achromatic outfits and equipped with utensils to protestation against the hike successful LPG cylinder prices and largescale deletion of women's names from the voters' list. "Gas prices person been accrued again and you can't publication a cylinder earlier 21 days.

So what volition you bash for 21 days if you tally retired of cooking state astatine home?" she said astatine a rally. Siddaramaiah said the hike was a effect of "flawed overseas policy" of the Modi government. He said it would further strain millions of households astatine a clip erstwhile families were battling relentless inflation. He accused the PM of surrendering India's strategical autonomy "by aligning blindly with the US" and disrupting long-standing vigor ties with Russia and Iran. In Jharkand, JMM spokesperson Supriyo Bhattacharya said, "Had India maintained its earlier ties with Russia, the state would not beryllium facing specified a situation."