NEW DELHI: Congress, along with other opposition parties, on Tuesday, staged a protest in Parliament over the issue of inflation.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi along with several senior leaders of the party like Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, KC Venugopal, Ranjeet Ranjan and Manickam Tagore staged a protest near the Mahatma Gandhi statue in Parliament.
The Congress MPs were also joined by Shiv Sena RS MP Priyanka Chaturvedi and other party leaders.
The MPs raised slogans against the government over the inflation and hike in the price of LPG cylinders.
The Opposition MPs also demanded the government withdraw the goods and services tax (GST) implemented on packaged food products, which came into force on July 18.
Criticising the government, Rahul Gandhi, in a Facebook post in Hindi, wrote, “This time, ‘recovery’ government? From now on, 5% GST will be charged from the public on packaged products like milk, curd, butter, rice, pulses and bread.”
“The daily food items became expensive, the cylinder became Rs 1053 but the government says ‘Sab changa si’. Meaning, this inflation is the problem of the people, not of the government,” he added.
“When the Prime Minister was in opposition, he had made inflation the biggest issue, but today he has pushed the public into a deep quagmire of problems, in which people are getting drowned every day. The Prime Minister is silent on this helplessness of yours, is happy and is lying on lies,” the former Congress president added.
“I and the entire Congress party stand with you against every atrocity being committed on you by the government. We will raise this issue vigorously in the House. No matter how many words the Prime Minister tries to silence us by calling it ‘unparliamentary’, he will have to answer,” Gandhi added.
The Monsoon Session of Parliament began on Monday and it will conclude on August 13.
The Monsoon Session of Parliament is all set to be stormy as Congress has cleared its stand on the government’s Agnipath scheme, unemployment, price rise, inflation and LAC issue with China among several others.