Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 26: Former MLA of Ramban and senior Congress leader Ashok Kumar has expressed serious concern over the perpetual price rise of essential commodities like edible oil, pulses and life saving medicines etcetera even in a pandemic where people are already loosing informal jobs and are under huge financial stress.
In a statement issued here, he expressed concern over the rising prices of essential commodities, food items and life saving drugs and urged upon the concerned Ministry to swiftly act to contain inflation as the people are suffering badly.
Ashok said that the economy is successively declining since 2019 onwards from a high of 8.2 percent to a low of 3.1 percent. Subsequently, people lost their jobs and are suffering to maintain their everyday livelihood. He said if the Government ignored the current crisis of inflation the situation can turn into great disaster and famine like situation could occur in future.
The Congress leader also stressed upon the Finance Ministry to reduce the price of diesel, cooking gas and other essential commodities. He also urged upon the Government to provide financial incentive to the deserved families so that they could sustain their daily livelihood.
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