UPCC chief Nirmal Khatri, who led the protest in Ambedkarnagar district, flayed the hike in power tariff and demanded its immediate roll back.
Lashing out at the Akhilesh government for the prevailing "goondaraj" in the state, Khatri blamed the SP government for sheltering criminals.
Similar protests were staged at all the district headquarters in the state including Varanasi, Jaunpur, Faizabad, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Badaun, Gazipur, Moradabad, Amroha, Sitapur, Azamgarh, Siddhartnagar,Balrampur, Gonda, Bahraich and Lucknow among others, a Congress release issued here said.
The state government has hiked the power tatriff on October 1.
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