Aam Aadmi Party demanded that the Bharatiya Janata Party government bring diesel and petrol in the ambit of goods and services tax (GST) saying that inflation had broken the backbone of the public.
AAP’s UP incharge and Rajya Sabha member, Sanjay Singh, told news persons in Lucknow on Monday that the people should unseat the BJP if they wanted to get rid of inflation.
“The public should unseat the BJP by forfeiting the sureties of BJP candidates in the assembly election in 2022. The Union government has realised Rs 23 lakh crore from the public in the name of hike in fuel prices but has not given any respite to the public. The Modi led Union government is helping their industrialist friends by squeezing the public,” he alleged.
Singh said that the price reduction in fuel was insufficient. “Modi government did not give any relaxation to the public during the last seven years even though fuel prices were low in the international market. The fuel price in our country is decided in the light of the price of crude oil in the international market. We are still paying heavy prices for the purchase of fuel,” he pointed out.
The AAP leader said that the BJP reduced fuel prices to woo the people who are badly hit by inflation and explained his point by speaking about the Communist leader Stalin in a sarcastic way.
On the BJP government’s promise of sending Rs 1,100 to parents of school students for purchasing school uniform, sweater, bags, books and shoes and socks, Singh said that the AAP had sent a cheque of Rs 1,100 to the Basic Education minister asking the latter to purchase shoes, socks, sweater, school bag and two sets of school dress shoes, socks and sweater for Rs 1,100 for a student of class 8 as the amount was unrealistic.
Demanding an increase in the money from Rs 1,100 to Rs 3,000, the AAP leader said that there was nothing new in what the BJP did for the schoolchildren by sending Rs 1,100 in the bank accounts of parents/guardians of the students. “The scheme to give the above said material existed earlier,” he said.
