Congress president Sonia Gandhi will address a public rally in Delhi on December 12 as her party looks to corner the Narendra Modi-led government over inflation and price rise. The ‘Mehangai Hatao rally’ will also be addressed by Rahul Gandhi and other Congress leaders from across the country.
AICC general secretary K C Venugopal in a statement said, “It [the rally] will give a decisive warning to the present Modi government to stop its loot and reduce the backbreaking prices. We shall continue our struggle until the Modi government backs down.”
"Modi and 'Mehangai' have become the bane of people's lives," K C Venugopal alleged, adding, ”The unprecedented price rise and inflation have demolished the earnings, the household income and budget of every family in the country.”
The Congress leader further said that the people of India are suffering unbearable cruelty and untold misery on account of the BJP government-driven price rise and inflation.
The budget of every household bleeds, even minimum nutrition suffers and people are finding it difficult to buy and consume day-to-day food articles as also other consumables, he alleged.
KC Venugopal said, “Modi government remains oblivious to this insurmountable pain and suffering of people.”
Taking a swipe at the Narendra Modi-led government, the Congress leader said, “The only solution offered by Modi government is a divisive religious discourse or sporadic diversionary statements to reset the agenda from fundamental issues affecting the lives of the people.”
The statement further added that the real issues affecting people of India are the backbreaking prices of petrol, diesel and cooking gas, which have had a spiraling effect on the prices of all foods and other consumable items.
“Every home is affected by the merciless rise in prices of cooking oil, pulses and other food items,” KC Venugopal said.
He claimed that perhaps for the first time, price of tomato has surpassed the price of petrol and diesel in India. Construction material like cement, iron and steel has seen a rise of nearly 40 per cent to 50 per cent. Everything is gradually going out of the reach of the common man, KC Venugopal said.
“Modi government either remains indifferent to the woes and agony of ordinary Indian or mocks it on other occasions,” KC Venugopal said in a statement.