KEY POINTS :

• Taxi drivers also joined the rickshaw drivers’ movement
• Demand for an increase in rickshaw fare with financial assistance, including a reduction in CNG price.

Taxi drivers have now joined the rickshaw drivers’ movement at the meeting in Ahmedabad. The meeting will discuss how to fight the rise in CNG prices in the coming days.

Rickshaw drivers are protesting against the CNG price hike. Then once again today, the representatives of the rickshaw drivers union and taxi drivers from different districts of the state, including Ahmedabad, will hold a meeting. 

Taxi drivers have now joined the rickshaw drivers’ movement at the meeting in Ahmedabad. The meeting will discuss how to fight the rise in CNG prices in the coming days. Earlier, rickshaw drivers had announced a statewide strike on November 15 and 16.

Statewide rickshaw drivers will strike

the meeting was the case at the Circuit House in Ahmedabad old taxi driver riksacalakana delegates and representatives. In which the next strategy was discussed.

 In this case, the application letter will be given to the governor on November 15, and he will wear the black belt on November 15. The rickshaw drivers’ committee has claimed that more than 3 lakh rickshaw drivers and about 50,000 taxi drivers will join the agitation. 

The main demand of the rickshaw drivers’ committee is to reduce the price of CNG. Financial assistance should be provided after Corona, like other states.

Such has been the demand

to tell the committee whether in petrol CNG price diesel not lower the price if the reduced VAT! Rickshaw drivers and taxi drivers’ representatives say that the state government levies 15% VAT per kg on CNG, while the Center levies 14% excise duty. So CNG price is taxed at Rs 20 to 25. So a reduction of Rs 9 per kg has been demanded at the price of CNG.

BJP representative

Vijay Makwana, president of the Ahmedabad Rickshaw Driver Ekta Union, said that the state government had decided on the issue of fare hike by calling only those who were his office bearers, namely BJP office bearers and rickshaw drivers.

  Which is not valid. So that the next strike of 15-16 October will remain the same, the questions of the rickshaw drivers have not been taken into consideration, only two or three people have been called, and the fare hike has been announced.

In the rickshaw

drivers’ movement, two separate rickshaw drivers’ associations formed a committee to protest the CNG price hike by taking up their demands and questions.

 So the representatives who went to meet the state government, including the rickshaw drivers from the Khokhra area who were not part of the committee formed for this fight, are also being used by other rickshaw drivers. With this, now there are two divisions in the movement of rickshaw drivers.