Activists of Sikh Student Federation burn an effigy of Congress party Sonia Gandhi during a protest against fuel price hike in Amritsar, India, Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. India's beleaguered government faced angry protests from its political allies as well as the opposition after it raised the price of diesel fuel late Thursday in a bid to curb a ballooning national deficit and also announced a reduction in cooking gas subsidies.