Farmers Movement Archive

Randhawa attacks Centre on inflation, economic policies

Chandigarh: The Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Friday attacked the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre for skyrocketing inflation owing to “disastrous economic policies”. He said the LPG gas rates have increased by Rs 300 during the last 10 months, which has broken the back of the common man. This enormous increase comes at a time when the farmers are passing through a financial crisis due to black farm laws and every section of the society is reeling under economic distress because of the Covid-19 battered economy, he said. “This increase is all the more alarming considering the fast approaching festival season as every spectrum of our society is closely connected to it,” he said. Randhawa added that last November, the price of LPG gas was Rs 600 which has touched a new high of Rs 900 due to the anti-people fiscal policy framework of the Union government. The NDA government has double the LPG gas prices during the previous seven years which in May 2014 stood at Rs 400, he said. Not only the LPG gas cylinder but even the prices of petrol and diesel have touched a record high in the last seven years, he said. Taking a dig at the Union ministers, the deputy chief minister questioned BJP’s silence over ever increasing inflation when it had created a furore over a nominal increase in oil and gas cylinder prices during the UPA rule.

The Times of India

2021-10-09

Chandigarh