Scores of students affiliated to various ruling parties took to the street on November 14 to protest against the recent decision of the Government to increase the price of petroleum products and LPG cooking gas, reports The Himalayan Times. Students carried emptied LPG cylinders above their heads and marched through Exhibition Road shouting slogans against the price hike. Student unions of the ruling Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Centre (CPN-Maoist Center), Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Socialist (CPN-Unified Socialist), Janta Samajbadi Party-Nepal (JSP-N) and the unions of three other ruling parties had joined the protest. They demanded the resignation of the Executive Director of Nepal Oil Corporation Surendra Pandey and withdrawal of the hiked price. They also shouted slogans against the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies for remaining a mute spectator.