BJP cadre stage demo against property tax hike
The Hindu
TIRUNELVELI
TIRUNELVELI
Condemning the State Government’s decision to hike the property tax up to 150%, the Bharatiya Janata Party cadre staged demonstration in front of Tirunelveli Railway Junction on Friday.
Led by party’s Tirunelveli district (in-charge) Kattalai Jothi, the BJP cadre raised slogans against the Stalin-led Tamil Nadu Government for upwardly revising the property tax unprecedentedly.
Speaking at the protest, BJP’s national executive committee member and former Rajya Sabha MP Sasikala Pushpa said the sharp increase in the property tax would hit hard the public, who had already been devastated by the COVID-19 that caused job loss and salary cut.
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