Cong workers protest rising prices of onions, tomatoes

Tribune News Service

Pathankot, November 2

District Congress president Sanjeev Bains led a delegation of party workers who presented Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma with baskets of onions and tomatoes to protest the skyrocketing prices of these commodities here on Monday.

PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar was to lead the delegation but he could not arrive because he was unwell. Pathankot forms a part of his former Parliamentary constituency of Gurdaspur. In his absence, the protestors were led by Sanjeev Bains, president of the district Congress committee.

Bains said when there would be a slight rise in the inflation index during the UPA regime, BJP leaders would be quick to lodge protests. “Why are these people quiet now? The Modi-led NDA government is a democratically elected one and hence it is answerable to the people who elected it to power. BJP leaders should know that in the past, elections have been won and lost on the rising prices of onions. These commodities have gone out of the reach of the poor and middle-class families. The illegal hoarding of onions is one of the key factors behind the spiralling prices of the commodity,” said Bains.