Excelsior Correspondent
GURDASPUR, Feb 2: Former minister and senior Congress leader Mula Ram criticized the BJP Government at the Centre for its failure to provide any succor to the general public amidst sky high prices of essential commodities including fuel prices besides the spine breaking inflation.
Mula Ram, who is AICC observer for District Gurdaspur in Punjab, today along with Hari Singh Chib, president DCC Jammu Rural visited Gurdaspur in Punjab and held a series of meetings at several places in connection with Punjab Assembly elections. The senior Congress leader met District president Gurdaspur, Batala Congress candidate, Congress candidate Dina Nagar and also held a meetings at Taragarh, Swankhan, Soara, Kathlor and Bijju.
The former minister said that general public is suffering badly due to hollow policies of BJP led government at the Centre on account of economic slowdown, unemployment and unbridled inflation. He said the woes and miseries of the common man today are attributed to the wrong policies of the BJP Government at the Centre. Petrol and diesel prices are at all-time high having made history; LPG prices have doubled as compared to their prices before 2014 while the prices of vegetables, fruits, edible oils, pulses, eggs and other essentials are out of reach of the common man, he lamented.
Hari Singh asked the BJP Government at the Centre to immediately initiate drastic measures in order to bring down the fuel prices as these have a direct impact on all the products. He also urged the party activists in Gurdaspur to reach out to every voter and explain them the programme and policies of the Congress party. He appealed to the people of Punjab to cast their vote in favour of Congress to ensure its victory and for forming next Government alone. He said that Congress party is fighting against ‘divisive and exploitive’ forces, which are hell bent to destroy communal harmony.
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