Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 7: Former Deputy Chief Minister, Tara Chand has asked the Central Government to reduce petrol and diesel prices with immediate effect to give relief to the common man from the unbearable hike in the prices of petroleum products this year.
He was addressing the Congress workers’ meeting at village Kot Maira in Khour Constituency, which was attended by hundreds of Congress workers. Tara Chand said that rise in cylinder prices and petroleum products has most hit the poor.
Speaking on the occasion, Tara Chand said it was cruel on the Government’s part to refuse to reduce fuel prices even when global crude oil prices had crashed last year. The whole principle of deregulation and dynamic pricing is predicated on the principle that reductions in crude oil prices will proportionately benefit the end consumers, he asserted.
Former DyCM said the fuel price hike has not only hit the traders but also farmers, students, daily wage earners and other sections of the society. Befooling the public for paying high taxes when their hands are already tight because of a slow post-pandemic recovery, is unfortunate and unjustified.
While blaming the BJP for causing misery and distress to people, Tara Chand said that the Government has failed to resolve issues in J&K and instead has amplified the number of problems people are facing today. Locals are agitated over such an apathetic attitude of the Government. Levying Property Tax is another misery added to the heaps and piles. He said, lakhs of jobs have been lost and the economy is at its lowest ebb, an increase in petrol and diesel prices increase inflation day by day.
Tara Chand reiterated demand of holding early Assembly elections in J&K. The Govt of India should understand the ground reality as the people are in distress without an elected Govt. He said that the public woes have increased due to bureaucratic attitude and uneasiness among the people has increased.
Ch Garu Ram, Ex- Minister, Narinder Sharma PCC secretary, Suram Singh (Vice president DCC Rural Jammu), Block president Pargwal, Khour, Samwa and Khara Balli, Jagatar Singh, Jagdish Raj Sharma, Gautam Sharma, Daljeet Singh, Captain Kali Dass, Ashok Sharma and others were also present.
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