New Delhi, April 3 -- Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar hit out at the BJP for "selective protests" against price hikes on Thursday, accusing the central government of raising LPG and fuel prices previously.

"There have been fuel prices hikes and LPG cylinder price hikes in the past by the BJP government at the Centre. Now, the toll prices have been hiked. The BJP never protests against these price rises," he said while speaking to reporters.

The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) recently raised the price of tolls by upto five per cent. Shivakumar's comments come amidst the state government announcing a price hike of Rs 2 per litre of diesel from April 1.

Shivakumar said that that farmers are benefiting from the s...