Jalandhar Mayor pedals in rain to protest rising fuel prices

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, July 13

A day after members of the Jalandhar unit of the Youth Congress burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protest against the hike in petrol and diesel prices, Mayor Jagdish Raja, along with some Congress councillors, today pedalled cycle in heavy rain.

He started off from the Municipal Corporation, Jalandhar, and continued up to the Congress Bhawan. “We had planned to pedal for 5 km. However, due to the heavy rain, we could not pedal much,” he said.

“Nobody would be able to drive vehicles if fuel prices kept on rising like this. Inflation is at its peak and everyone bearing the brunt of it,” he said. “Just to mark my presence in the protest, I rode a bicycle today. Otherwise, I had never thought I would do that,” the Mayor added.

Jalandhar Central MLA Rajinder Beri had also slammed the BJP government on Monday for the sharp hike in prices of essential commodities.