KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 14

Scores of student union leaders affiliated to various ruling parties took to the street today to protest against the recent decision of the government to increase the price of petroleum products and LPG cooking gas.

Students carried emptied LPG cylinders above their heads and marched through Exhibition Road shouting slogans against the price hike. Student unions of the ruling Maoist Centre, NCP United Socialist, Janta Samajbadi Party-Nepal and the unions of three other ruling parties had joined the protest.

They demanded the resignation of the Executive Director of Nepal Oil Corporation Surendra Pandey and withdrawal of the hiked price. They also shouted slogans against the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies for remaining a mute spectator.

The protesters displayed placards over gas cylinders that read, 'Let me light it' and 'how shall I light the fire at the poor's house.' They also demanded that the government control black-marketing, and inflation, and asked the NoC not to make profit from the most valued utility among common people.

Many other students banged on steel plates as a symbolic protest. Lately, various student unions have continued their protests against the recent price hike.

A version of this article appears in the print on November 15, 2021, of The Himalayan Times.