By PTI
BHUBANESWAR: A person in full wedding ceremony finery rode a cycle to the venue right here as a mark of protest in opposition to the excessive gasoline costs within the nation.
His household and mates adopted on foot to attend the marriage, which came about at Unit III space of the town on Wednesday.
Photos of the marriage procession went viral on the social media and was praised by many because the “ideal wedding”.
Subhranshu Samal, the groom, mentioned his household had organized for an costly marriage procession.
“But I decided to use a bicycle to reach at the wedding pandal to lodge my protest against the high and ever increasing price of fuel in the country”.
He coated a distance of about one km in his cycle wearing his wedding ceremony garments.
The overwhelming help from the individuals for his novel protest shocked him, Samal mentioned.
“Even bystanders and passersby took selfies with Subhranshu riding cyclone,” a member of the ‘barati’ (marriage social gathering) mentioned.
Samal mentioned that many others are pissed off like him over the capturing worth of petrol and diesel.
“Staging agitations near Raj Bhavan have become a normal practice by political parties. As an individual I preferred to show my displeasure. Those at helm should get an idea of the anger that is there in the people on the fuel price issue,” he mentioned.
The worth of petrol per litre in Bhubaneswar on Thursday was Rs 112.56 and Rs 102.24 for diesel.
