A nationwide strike against rising petrol prices in India has closed shops and disrupted public transport, with the under-fire government facing new dissent over its economic management. Opposition political parties and trade unions enforced a shutdown in many cities on Thursday, with anti-government marches held in New Delhi and commercial hub Mumbai. The strike came on the same day as shock economic growth figures for the January-March quarter showed the slowest quarterly expansion in nine years, of 5.3 percent. Al Jazeera’s Prerna Suri, reporting from New Delhi, said government’s decision to raise fuel prices by over 11 per cent , the highest in the country’s history, triggered the protests.
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