The Madhya Pradesh Youth Congress (MPYC) demonstrated against the spiraling prices of commodities here on Thursday at Chinar Park.
Hundreds of Congress workers led by MPYC president Kunal Chowdhry alleging that the BJP governments of centre and state is patronizing dearness protested against the government at Chinar Park. The protestors were holding anti government posters and they were shouting slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
Chowdhry while talking to the media persons at the protest site said, “The BJP governments led by PM Modi at centre and CM Chouhan in the state are smashing the happiness of the festival for common people by patronizing the spiraling prices of commodities. Be it the food products, diesel- petrol or cooking gas and the sweets available in the market on the occasion of festival of lights Diwali, prices of everything is spiraling making the life of the common man miserable.”
Chowdhry further said that the prices of pulses and grains have almost tripled since the Modi government assumed office. It is common practice to keep sweets while performing Pujan of Diwali but today when the common man goes to purchase sweet he gets stunned after hearing the price of it, he added.
He said that the prices of diesel and petrol are higher in Madhya Pradesh compared to other parts of the country because the BJP government has levied maximum tax over it in the state.
The Central Government despite increasing rail fares is levying different type of other taxes making the common frightened from travelling by train, he added.
The MPYC president said that the central government has banned the import and sale of Chinese products with the intent that it could compel the people to purchase products manufactured by its favored manufacturers of the country at their willful prices.