Jalandhar, Aug 08: Over 500 petroleum products dealers in Punjab hit by the Centre's decision to cancel the allotments of dealerships today said they would resort to indefinite hunger strike if the decision was not reviewed. Following an emergency meeting of the newly formed association of affected petroleum products dealers, its vice president Harwinder Singh Sandhu said "we have no alternative except resorting to hunger strike to protest against the government's alleged arbitrary order."
"We demand immediate review of the order and if necessary government could order a CBI probe into each and every allotment, so that genuine allottees could be spared from harassment," Sandhu told reporters. In some cases, unsuccessful applicants had moved the supreme court against the allotment, he said. The apex court had justified the allotments in some cases, which were now cancelled by the Centre. "How could the government cancel the allotments which were justified by the Supreme Court?" Bureau Report