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WHO IS THERE TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF COMMON MAN

This is not a blog to analyse the price hike. It is just an expression of the frustration of common man.  Once again the price of petrol has been increased and this time by a whopping ₹7.50/- to ₹8/-. And to protest that we had a hartal in Kerala. When there is a hartal, India looses crore of rupees. Those persons who are relying on daily wages will go starving. Now I am posing this question, what did we achieve by this hartal? Is it to protest the price hike. If that is the intention, did we get the results and the fuel prices get revised? It is an answer that the political parties are bound to give the common man.                   Now coming to the fuel hike, despite whatever the ministers may say, was such a huge increase warranted?  Statics tell us that a whopping ₹32 is taken by the government as taxes. If this tax is reduced, then the price can be brought down atleast by ₹15/-.  But who cares about the common man? The ministers are bound answer this simple questi