Title - Jaya urges Centre to rollback parcel rate hike in Railways

Chennai: Slamming the Centre for hiking the railway parcel rates by 25 percent, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa today termed it as “adding salt to injury,” and demanded its immediate rollback.Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa. AFP “I condemn the hiking of luggage and parcel rates by the Centre in which the DMK is a constituent. This move amounts to adding salt to injury to the poor people who are already suffering due to the recent petrol price hike,” she said in a statement.Holding that commodities including medicines, pulses, flour varieties, tyres and magazines are transported through trains, she said the hike was therefore against the poor and middle-class citizens.“I urge Centre to immediately rollback the hike,” she said.