Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government over the issue of high prices of cooking gas and said that if the government was indeed honest about its Ujjwala Scheme, it should provide subsidy to the poor and reduce the galloping inflation in the country.
Priyanka’s attack on the government came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Ujjwala 2.0, the second phase of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), by virtually presenting free LPG connections to some beneficiaries in Mahoba district of Uttar Pradesh which goes to polls early next year.
"Ninety per cent of the cylinders provided under Ujjwala Scheme are lying in disuse and women are forced to cook using firewood because the BJP government has doubled the rates of a cooking gas cylinder in the last seven years and reduced subsidy to a negligible amount," Priyanka tweeted in Hindi on Wednesday.
In another tweet, the Congress top leader tagged a media report on the problems being faced by the poor due to rising prices of cooking gas and posted, "If the government is honest about Ujjwala then it should give subsidies to the poor and reduce inflation.”
Earlier on Tuesday, the UP Congress had said that Ujjwala Scheme had proved to be a “hollow gimmick” of the government as a domestic cooking gas cylinder was costing Rs 888 and demanded that its price be halved to the level it was in 2014 during the United Progressive Alliance rule.
