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Protest against price rise

Staff Reporter

BJP Delhi Pradesh Mahila Morcha forms a human chain

PROTEST RALLY: Activists of Delhi Pradesh BJP Mahila Morcha holding a toy depicting a child dying for want of milk due to price hike during a rally on Thursday in protest against the increase in prices of essential commodities . — PHOTO: RAJEE V BHATT

NEW DELHI: A large number of activists of BJP Delhi Pradesh Mahila Morcha on Thursday formed a human chain in Connaught Place and held a demonstration to protest against the spiralling increase in prices of essential commodities.

The protesters also denounced the policies of the Congress-led Governments at the Centre and in Delhi that they said were responsible for the situation.

Addressing the protesters, Delhi BJP president Harsh Vardhan warned that if the prices were not controlled immediately the consequences for the Congress regimes would be dire.

He said people had been suffering due to misrule and rising prices, unemployment, anti-trade and industry policies, large number of taxes and anti-people decisions that have together made the lives of the masses miserable. ``The Congress is behaving in an undemocratic and autocratic way. It will have to be dislodged,'' he declared.

Mahila Morcha president Kiran Maheshwari recalled how the Congress had made onion price rise a major poll issue some years ago.

But today, she said, the prices of all commodities ranging from kerosene to flour had increased manifold.

As such, she declared, the BJP workers would hold protests all over Delhi to highlight the issue in the run-up to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections.

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