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Briefing reporters, Congress general secretary Randeep Singh Surjewala said the party’s ‘Mehangai Hatao Maharally’ on Sunday will be a decisive fight against the Central government. He alleged that the “anti-people Modi government” has given a double blow to people by first scuttling their livelihood opportunities and then throwing them in the fire of inflation. He alleged that while a select few got ‘mauka,’ people at large bagged ‘dhokha’ under the Modi govt.
“On December 12, Rajasthan will witness a great war against inflation. It will be a decisive fight against the Modi government, which is driven by overweening arrogance of power and is in deep slumber. The echo of the rally will be heard in the entire country,” Surjewala said. The rally was earlier proposed to be held in Delhi, but was shifted to Jaipur after it was denied permission by the Centre.According to last year’s labour ministry’s findings, the country faced the worst unemployment rate in the last 45 years with the numbers touching as high as 10 per cent at a point. He said for the last seven years, the Modi government had only created opportunities for the capitalists and cheated the common man.
Necessities such as petrol, diesel, LPG, vegetables, pulses, edible oil have gone out of reach of the common man, he said.
“In 2014 when the Modi government came to power, the price of LPG cylinder was Rs 400, diesel was Rs 56, petrol Rs 70 and crude oil USD108 per barrel,” he added.
“Today, the price of domestic LPG cylinder has almost touched Rs 1,000, commercial cylinder beyond Rs 2000, petrol and diesel cost over Rs 100 per litre, cooking oil beyond Rs 200 per litre and even tomatoes Rs 100 per kg,” said the party general secretary.
He also alleged that in the last seven years, the Modi government had “looted” the public of Rs 24 lakh crore by increasing excise duty on petrol and diesel.
During UPA government, excise duty on petrol was only Rs 9.20 per litre, which was hiked to Rs 32.90 by the Modi government, he said.
He said after its defeat in the November 4 by-elections, the BJP brought down excise duty on petrol to Rs 21.80 per litre, but it was still 512 per cent higher than what it was during the Manmohan Singh government.
Citing a recent RBI report, the Congress leader said according to a report ‘Demonetisation and wrong GST,’ the Modi-government ruined the small and medium industries of the country.
Despite demonetisation, the amount of cash in the economy increased by 64 per cent, he said.
Just before demonetisation on November 8, 2016, cash in circulation was Rs 17.74 lakh crore, which increased to Rs 29.17 lakh crore on October 29, 2021, he said citing a RBI report.
According to the recent ‘Global Hunger Index Report’, India was behind Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh ranking 101 in a list of 116 nations, he said.
Surjewala also cited the ‘World Inequality Report’ issued this month to say 57 per cent of the total income of the nation rests with only top 10 per cent of people, while the bottom 50 per cent possess only 13 per cent of it.
He cited an NSO report saying that under Modi government average income of farmers in the country was reduced by Rs 27 per day — less than MGNREGA wages.
Far from doubling the income, the farmer’s income was reduced ten times, he alleged.
