Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 9: JKPCC vice president and former Minister Raman Bhalla today attacked the Government over the rise in prices of essential commodities, asking it to act sternly against black marketers and push sufficient stocks of food in the market to check rising prices.
Bhalla said it is not only COVID-19 that is denting the spirits of the common man as the prices of food items are spiralling. He claimed that with almost no fiscal stimulus, the economy is struggling to get back on track, but the Government is ignorant and blatantly incompetent in controlling inflation.
“While the Government should explore avenues to provide support to the people and boost consumption, it is on a lookout to extract as much from the common man and leave them helpless. We demand the Government to immediately act on black marketers, assess the stock of essential items lying in cold storages and push sufficient stock in the markets to control the prices,” Bhalla said after meeting different sections of society in various areas of Gandhi Nagar constituency.
The JKPCC leader said the consumer food price inflation has been consistently high for the last few months, both in the urban and rural areas. When the time is to boost consumption in our economy, why is the Government denting the pockets of the common man through increased prices for their mandatory spending,” he questioned.
He said that the Congress party will hold a nationwide symbolic protest in front of petrol pumps across the country on June 11 against the hike in fuel prices. The economic condition of the people is deteriorating due to the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel amid the Corona epidemic, he added.
“In many states, the price of petrol has crossed Rs 100 per liter. In such a situation, the Congress party has announced to take this issue more strongly by taking it on the road. However, in view of the Corona epidemic, it was already told that this protest will be only symbolic,” the former Minister said.
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