6 Jun 2008, 1207 hrs IST,TIMESOFINDIA.COM NEW DELHI: Opposition parties in various states continued stir against steep fuel price hike by the UPA government. Trinamool Congress on Friday called a 12-hour bandh in Bengal and demanded that the government should take back sales tax on petroleum. In Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party activists blocked Vijaywada railway station. Shiv Sena also staged rail roko protest at a Mumbai railway station in the morning. Trinamool calls 12-hr Bengal bandh KOLKATA: West Bengal was in the grip of a bandh for the second consecutive day on Friday after the opposition Trinamool Congress and its ally the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) enforced the shut down to protest the fuel price hike. (Watch) For the second day in a row the bandh disrupted rail and road communication. Most shops and...
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