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BJP holds demonstration against price rise

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Congress accused of overlooking the issue

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party organised a demonstration at Hari Nagar-Ghanta Ghar Chowk in West Delhi on Saturday in protest against sharp increases in the prices of essential commodities. The party exhorted people to dislodge the "anti-people'' Congress Government in Delhi. During the demonstration, which lasted nearly four hours, Delhi BJP vice-president Ram Bhaj charged that when in 1998 the price of onions had gone up, the Congress had made a major issue out of it -- leading to the defeat of the BJP in Delhi. But now when the prices of just about every commodity from salt, cement, steel, oil, ghee, packaged food, pulses, flour, potatoes, onion, tomatoes, fruit and other vegetables had gone up substantially, the Delhi Congress was sitting like a mute spectator.

BJP general secretaries Pawan Sharma and Alok Kumar accused the Congress of deliberately overlooking the issue of price rise as it wanted to help hoarders and black-marketers. Blaming the wrong policies of the Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre for all the ills, the BJP leaders said: "Two years ago there was no room to store foodgrains in our country and it was alleged that the NDA Government was keeping the wheat in the open due to which it was rotting, but today the UPA Government is in the process of importing wheat and sugar at higher prices.''

They alleged that it was due to wrong policies that farmers were committing suicide. Other BJP leaders -- Jagdish Mukhi, Harsharan Singh Balli, O.P. Babbar and Karan Singh Tanwar -- appealed to the public that "they should dislodge the Congress from power as it has nothing to offer to the general public".

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