The Ahmedabad Auto Rickshaw Sanchalak Sangharsh Samiti today announced to go on a 72-hour long hunger strike from Thursday noon to press for their demand to either increase fare or roll back the recent hike in CNG price. This comes even as the state government has assured to fix the fare of CNG-operated autos through a separate mechanism,

The demand for fixing auto fares came in the wake of the hike of Rs 2.68 per kg announced by the Adani group early this week.

Samiti president Harihar Mishra and general secretary Kirit Amin said the union will start their demonstration at the Income Tax Office circle and that five drivers will fast each day. They said they have been forced to go on hunger strike as the government overlooked their representations in the past.

Congress leader Ashok Panjabi, meanwhile, said that the protest has got support from different organisations like student and labour unions, and human rights committees.

He said that among the issues to be raised in near future will be need for a regulatory body for CNG price fixation, a trade committee to decided on minimum fare and no fresh permit for auto rickshaws.

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