Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders led by party’s Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Goel staged a protest at the Ajmeri Gate on Friday against the Kejriwal Government as prices of the kitchen staple skyrocketed.
Wearing garlands of onions, the MP and some of the protesters, including New Delhi Lok Sabha MP Meenakshi Lekhi, demanded that the Delhi Government bring down onion prices instead of ‘indulging in politics over the issue’.
Goel said that with onion prices have reached to Rs 100 per kg, the Central Government has decided to import 6,000 tonnes onions from Egypt.
“ The Central Government had written a letter to States on November 23 asking them to send their demands but Kejriwal Government did not even reply,” he added.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Food Minister Imran Hussain have accused the BJP-ruled Centre of not supplying onion to the Delhi Government at concessional rates. Onion is selling up to Rs 100 per kg in various markets in the city.
