Wednesday, June 7 2006 16:26 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

New Delhi: BJP activists today (June 7, 2006) held a road blockade here to protest fuel price hike as party president Rajnath Singh demanded its immediate rollback.

Protestors shouting slogans against Gandhi assembled at Moti Nagar in West Delhi and burnt tyres during an hour-long road blockade organised by the main Opposition party.

In his address, the BJP president also accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of subservience to the Congress chief and called upon the Left to withdraw support from the ruling UPA over fuel price hike.

"Everybody knows that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is not working for the country. He is subservient to the Congress president," the BJP leader, who termed reports about Gandhi's 'unhappiness' over the fuel price increase a 'stage-managed show', said.

Also, he vowed that the BJP-led NDA would hold nationwide protests against the UPA's economic policies even as he flayed the Centre over its handling of terrorism and internal security issues.

In a scathing assault on the Left, which is also protesting the fuel price increase, the BJP leader accused the CPM of double standards, citing its support to the ruling UPA while opposing the rise in petrol and diesel prices.

"If they are true proponents of the cause of the common man, they should pull support from the ruling UPA. But they are not which shows their double standards," Singh said.

The token road blockade, one of the 13 held in parts of Delhi by the BJP snarled traffic for an hour around the protest scene.