YSR Congress Party today claimed that the Mahadharna across the State to protest against the hike in RTC bus charges and surcharge on power bills is successful and said the anti-people policies of the government will spell the doom for Congress Party in the general elections. Talking to reporters here, Party MLC Jupudi Prabhakar Rao said ‘Our party cadre held dharnas at all the district Collector offices demanding the rollback of hiked diesel prices and reverse the decision of colleting surcharge on energy bills with retrospective effect’,. Though misuse of official machinery and law enforcing agencies were blatant with the arrest of YSRCP leaders and cadre at many places and police trying to foil our dharna, the event was successful as our Party is with the people, he said. There was a stalk contrast in the behaviour of the police when compared with the recent all-party bandh and to our Mahadharna, but YSRCP call for dharna has received good response, he said adding that the State has increased prices of various commodities and services for 27 times and is only waiting to pull on the remaining 18-month period of governance, he said.
‘We strongly condemn the police highhandedness, particularly in Nizamabad and reiterate our commitment for people’s cause and will march forward in pursuing the ideals of YSR as the State Government and TDP have failed to bring up burning issues for discussion in Assembly or the Council’ he said. UNI