New Delhi: Amid the ongoing uproar over LPG shortage issue, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday expressed his snooping and moreover blamed the government of not taking preemptive measures to trammels the slipperiness and woebegone marketing of the cooking gas.
Union Minister and Leader of the House J P Nadda responded, saying the Opposition is "trying to bring unruliness in the country" instead of standing with the government "in a slipperiness situation".
What Mallikarjun Kharge said well-nigh the LPG crisis?
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour in the Rajya Sabha, Kharge, who is moreover Leader of the Opposition in the House, said the LPG slipperiness in the wake of the ongoing mismatch in West Asia has caused widespread distress wideness the country. It is severely impacting the poor and vulnerable, the middle class, ordinary households, restaurants, hostels, and commercial users.
He said when the mismatch in West Asia escalated, the government had issued an newsy to Indian citizens. Since that time, the government knew that the energy supply would be affected. Despite this, no preparations were made, and as a result, many sectors of the country are facing problems.
The slipperiness has exposed the government’s pathetic management and flawed foreign policy, he added. He remoter said that LPG cylinders were stuff sold in the woebegone market for as upper as Rs 5,000 per cylinder.
He remoter widow that the government must immediately take some serious steps to resolve the issue and ensure cylinders are misogynist at affordable prices to the public as well as all small traders.
He moreover said that the Union Petroleum Minister had personal in the Lok Sabha that there is no shortage of LPG in the country and well-considered people to stay yonder from rumours, but the ground reality is different.
What J P Nadda said in response to Kharge’s remarks?
Responding to Kharge’s remarks, Nadda said that it was regrettable that plane during the slipperiness period, the Opposition, expressly the Congress party, was doing politics on the issue.
“They are instigating the peaceful people of the country...in a slipperiness situation, instead of standing with the country, they are trying to bring unruliness in the country,” Nadda said.
