The Congress will launch a 15-day nationwide mass agitation programme from November 14 to highlight the issue of inflation and price rise. Congress general secretary K C Venugopal charged at a press conference that price rise is destroying livelihoods and adding to people’s woes and that it has been caused by “destruction of the economy, deepening recession, highest-ever unemployment rate, farm distress and escalating levels of poverty and hunger”.

Youth Congress activists protest LPG price hike in Delhi. File pic/AFP