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| 'Price hike of essential commodities, an endless list of suffering for common man: Sawhney | | "No need for 'Acche Din', return our 'Purane Din' | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, July 1: Former minister J&K and senior Congress leader Yogesh Sawhney on Thursday attacked the Centre for the incessant price hike of essential commodities in Jammu and across the nation.
He said that amidst growing concerns over the third wave of the pandemic, another woe is added to their list of worries in the form of this unreasonable price hike.
From fuel to essential food items, such as refined oil, mustard oil and even milk are getting costlier by the day, he said.
People have dealt with a heavy blow to their livelihoods because of the continuing pandemic amidst which prices have shot up across the country causing a lot of trouble for a lot of people. Especially for food, prices rose by 5% just in April, when primary commodities saw a rise of 10.16 per cent and manufactured products rose by 9.01 per cent, and then went on to increase further in the months of May and June.
And as for fuel, in many states, the petrol prices have already crossed Rs 100/litre and in many states, they are inching closer to that mark.
The former Minister added that the BJP Government is giving bizarre justifications for this price rise India blaming international markets and the pandemic. But the inflation is not pandemic-induced as the government claims to be. It has been induced by this government's policies. In the month of June alone, fuel prices were hiked on 16 different occasions.
Price of LPG has also increased by Rs 26 in the last month.
When asked fuel prices, some BJP leaders said that people should travel by bicycles and start using electrical vehicles among other absurd logics, but what will they say about food? Should the people of India stop eating food? Would they now blame the people for eating food rather than fixing the problem? Pulses, edible oil and milk are being sold at sky rocketing prices. Milk sold by Amul brand has become costlier by Rs 2 per litre and they said higher costs in transportation, packaging and logistics is the reason
Further launching an attack on the Modi government, Sawhney stated that people have lost their businesses and jobs. We should provide relief to them not in the form of bogus welfare schemes but actual relief measures which will benefit the common man in the ground realities.
The government cannot justify price hike and leave people at the mercy of inflation, it is duty-bound to curb this incessant inflation and help people to get through the tough times.
The impact of fuel price rise on Indian households is immense.
Their monthly budgets are destroyed due to the new prices, and we have to remember, that most of the households are already struggling in coping with pandemic and lockdown - induced losses. |
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