SUCI (C) strongly opposes another dose of steep hike in petrol-diesel prices in various states consequent on withdrawal of subsidy component of fuel surcharge and calls upon people to thwart the pernicious move towards total deregularization of domestic fuel prices under pressure of movement
Provash Ghosh, General Secretary, SUCI (C), has issued the following statement to the press July 26:
We strongly oppose the most unjust and avidly anti-people move on the part of the Congress-led central government to withdraw the subsidy hitherto provided to the oil companies as compensation for the taxation under state surcharge as a result of there is steep rise in petrol-diesel prices in many states while the others would soon follow the suit.
With this, the government besides the customary plea of increase in international crude price and falling rupee has found out another pretext of periodic hike in domestic fuel tariff and made one more step towards complete deregularization of retail fuel tariff which would push the spiralling price rise further and spell yet more disaster in people’s life.
This is evident that this government is avowedly committed to protect maximization of profits by the oil behemoths crying hoarse to be compensated for what is known as ‘under recovery’ or difference between international and domestic tariffs of refined oil and is shows cruel indifference to, if not indulgence in, the escalated plight and penury of the rapidly pauperized common people.
We call upon the people not to accept this draconian attack on their life and livelihood calibrated as ‘economic logic’ for rescuing a shuttering economy, not be misled by the deceptive slogans and pretended opposition of the forces subservient to bourgeois class interest and come forward to embrace the path of organized sustained conscious democratic movement under correct leadership which is the only way to thwart such sinister designs of the bourgeois government and repel the mounting onslaughts perpetrated on them by it.
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