LAGATAR24 NETWORK
Ranchi, March 22: The Jharkhand Congress has slammed the BJP-ruled central government for an exorbitant price hike in LPG and other petroleum products and termed it as the return of the bad days.
In a press statement, Jharkhand Congress spokesperson Rajiv Ranjan Prasad said that the BJP has a unique way of thanksgiving after it wins elections. “With the victory of the BJP in the assembly elections, the bad days have just returned once again. The BJP resting after the victory has made people restless by increasing prices,” said Rajiv Ranjan Prasad.
He said that the BJP always fooled people in the name of giving relief from the price hike.
“The BJP CMs are yet to take the oath but the party has returned to its old agenda of making the life of people miserable by increasing the price of essential commodities. Union Home minister Amit Shah during the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh had urged people to vote for the BJP to get LPG cylinder free. Instead of giving any relief the BJP government increased the price of the LPG,” he said.
The Congress claimed that when the BJP came to power in May 2014, the previous government was only charging Rs 9.20 and Rs 3.46 as the excise tax on petrol and diesel respectively. But the same was increased by 203 percent and 531 percent respectively during the tenure of Narendra Modi.
The party alleged that in the last eight years, the central government fleeced people not less than Rs 26 Lakh crore by increasing the price of petroleum products.
