New Delhi, 02 January: The second day of the nationwide strike by truck drivers in protest against the central government’s new hit and run law, fuel stocks at about two thousand petrol pumps in North and West India have been exhausted.
People associated with the petroleum industry said that the public sector oil companies had filled the tanks at most of the petrol pumps across the country in anticipation of a strike by truck drivers. Despite this, some petrol pumps in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Punjab have run out of fuel due to huge crowd of people, while most of the petrol pumps have been closed.
It is worth mentioning that long queues were seen at petrol pumps in Mumbai and Nagpur today due to fears of fuel shortage. Petrol pump owners say that people are pouring more oil than required, due to which the petrol pumps are becoming empty.
In fact, under the new law of hit and run, if a bus, truck or dumper driver runs over someone and runs away, he can face 10 years of jail and a fine of Rs 7 lakh.Truck drivers say that this law is wrong, it should be withdrawn.
Traffic remained halted at many places due to the nationwide strike by drivers.
On the other hand, on the nationwide protest by truck drivers against the new law on hit-and-run cases, Union Minister General VK Singh said that passengers should not face problems due to the strike.
He said that the new law is to help the passengers. Earlier the driver used to run away, now a new law has been made in which the driver should be alert.
