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| JKPCC SC Cell organizes “Mehangai Pe Charcha” at RS Pura | | | 
Early Times Report
RS Pura, Aug 21: As a part of Congress nationwide series of “Mehangai Pe Charcha” meetings in all assembly constituencies from August 17 to 23 that will culminate in Mehangai Par Halla Bol mega rally in Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan on August 28, JKPCC General Secretary and former MLA Thakur Balwan Singh along with former MP TS Bajwa, former Minister Ch Garu Ram ,JKPCC Secretary Pawan Raina, Shashi Sharma led Mehangai Pe Charcha at RS Pura against price rise organized by JKPCC SC Cell Chairman Karan Bhagat. Prominent among those present on the occasion include Shamsher Bhagat , Baldev Raj, Block President Suchetgarh Rocky Sharma, Block President R S Pura Sunil Dutt, Sarpanchs Pratap , Sadiq Ahmed, Ashok Kumar MR Puri beside others.
Speaking on the occasion, Thakur Balwan Singh said that Modi government came to power by making false promises on the issue of inflation, foreign policy, etc. but it failed on every front and people are suffering badly,” he said. Singh said the Congress will continue to mount pressure on the central government if the rising inflation is not controlled. He said that inflation is skyrocketing but the Modi government is not bothered. “We will make the Modi government wake up and bow down,” he said. “It is shameful that the Modi government continued increasing petrol, diesel and LPG gas prices at a time when people of the country are still facing hardship due to corona pandemic,” he said while addressing aggrieved people of RS Pura. Inflation is being exacerbated by higher taxes on essential goods like curd, buttermilk, and packaged food grains, while the transfer of public assets to crony capitalists and the introduction of the misguided Agnipath scheme are making a bad employment situation worse,” he said. He said that due to the inflation, cost of living is increasing and it is pinching everybody hard. Common man is struggling to survive. Congress will continue to spread awareness about these anti-people policies among the people and increase pressure on the BJP government to change course, Singh said.
Singh observed that on the one hand government is increasing the price of essential commodities by imposing GST while on the other hand unemployment is also at alarming level. It has become impossible for the people to make both ends meet . The government should think about controlling inflation,” he said. Hitting out at the Centre, he said that the inflation in the country has reached to a record level and common people are bearing the brunt of rising prices. The Centre's move to impose the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on essential items like pre-packaged cereals, flour, honey, curd have further added woes to worries of people, he added. He said that ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have come to power, youths are losing their jobs, people are being hit by the GST and unemployment is on the rise in the country.Modi government is proving to be a "looteri government", he added.He said the people of India are suffering because of the Modi government’s “economic mismanagement” and the Congress will expose this before the people of the country.“
Former MP Bajwa claimed that India’s 50-crore poor comprising socially and economically weaker sections in rural areas and urban slums are pushed to acute poverty under the effect of inflation. The declining wage rates, Covid-19, high rural unemployment, income inequality and high food inflation have far-reaching implications for India’s trajectory towards alleviating poverty. The poor are still recovering from the disastrous effects of Covid-19, whereas inflation has a diabolic impact on the poor. The cost of living has become burdensome as the average prices of petrol and diesel per litre doubled from Rs 66 and Rs 53, respectively, in 2015 to Rs 110 and 96 in May 2022, whereas the retail price of LPG domestic cooking gas has gone up from Rs 600 to Rs 1,000 for the same period. The average edible oil prices have spiked from Rs 125 to Rs 200. On an average, the prices of pulses, vegetables, edible oil, fruits, milk, egg, fish, meat and other commodities have increased by 50 per cent. The prices of essential food items have increased by 50% in seven years (2015 to 2022), whereas the real wage rate has risen by 22 per cent. |
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