{
  "id": 7558354,
  "title": "CPI(M) protests Vijaya Dairy milk price hike in Vijayawada",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/15/cpi-m-protests-vijaya-dairy-milk-price-hike-in-vijayawada",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-15T13:32:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu",
    "slug": "the-hindu",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/cpim-protests-vijaya-dairy-milk-price-hike-in-vijayawada/article71467580.ece"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a protest in Vijayawada against the recent milk price hike by Vijaya Dairy on Tuesday. State secretariat member Ch. Babu Rao questioned the decision of the Krishna District Milk Union to increase milk prices without a chairman. He accused ministers of forcing the previous chairman to resign and criticized their silence on the latest price increase. Babu Rao urged the government and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu to take responsibility for the hike, stating it would burden consumers, especially families with children and pregnant women. He also alleged that the price increase could lead private dairies to raise their prices. Babu Rao warned that rice and essential commodities had become more expensive, but the government had failed to intervene. He demanded subsidized rice, pulses, onions, and other essentials through the public distribution system and questioned the status of the price stabilization fund. CPI(M) leaders P. Krishna, B. Chinnarao, V. Gurumurthy, and others participated in the protest.",
  "summary": "Party questions decision in the absence of a chairman, demands rollback and supply of subsidised essentials through PDS",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}