Expressing serious concern over the rising prices of onion and other essential commodities of daily use, the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Punjab unit on Monday submitted memoranda to the Government through the Deputy Commissioners (DCs).
AAP’s state president and Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann said that due to anti-people policies of the successive State and Central Government, the people were left to suffer.
“The income is dipping at an alarming rate, and so is the unemployment in the state, leading to sharp surge in the prices of onion and other commodities of daily use,” said Mann adding that neither the Capt Amarinder government in Punjab nor the Modi Government at the Centre were sensitive about the malaise the people were subjected to face.
Mann said that the governments were busy on an appeasement spree to benefit a handful of corporate houses and other big time entrepreneurs, accusing that the government of draining out the common man’s share of money available on account of certain welfare schemes through big ‘deals’ to leverage into appeasing the ‘patronized’ few corporate houses.
He said that the government thermal plants were being shut down under long-time, one-sided agreements, to promote private operators, were the fitting examples of governments’ sealing such ‘dubious’ deals, leading to driving a hole in the consumers’ pockets by offering them costlier electricity.
Mann said that the government needed to show large-heartedness to bail out common people from the economic slowdown by integrating agrarian economy, public, government and semi-government sectors as it had bailed out the corporate houses by offering a relief worth a whopping two and a half lakh crore.
AAP leader said that the governments should take a cue from Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi, questioning that if the Delhi Government could provide onion to consumers there at half the price and providing electricity at cheaper rate and could go about bettering the government schools and hospitals, why couldn’t the state and union governments emulate the model?
