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People pull a car by rope and shout slogans during a protest against the price hike in diesel and capping the number of subsidized cooking gas cylinders in Ahmadabad, India, on Sept. 14, 2012. The slogan on a replica cooking gas cylinder on the right reads "Down with price rise."

India's government faces heat over fuel price hike

The Associated Press reports from New Delhi — India's beleaguered government faced angry protests from its political allies as well as the opposition Friday after it raised the price of diesel fuel in a bid to curb a ballooning national deficit.

The price of diesel — important for farmers' irrigation pumps and tractors, as well as trains and buses — is politically sensitive in India.

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"It will affect the farmer, it will affect the common people," West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told CNN-IBN television channel. She demanded that the government withdraw the hike. Read the full story.

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