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Stand up against inflation: BJP

Staff Reporter

Party has called
for a strike to empathise with the sufferings of the people

NEW DELHI: Delhi Bharatiya Janata Party president Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday appealed to the Capital’s citizens to actively observe a strike in protest against price rise and inflation this Friday. The protest, he added, was aimed primarily at commiserating with the sufferings of the common man.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, Dr. Vardhan requested traders and industrialists to also join the campaign against price rise and charged that much of the malaise in the system at present was due to the wrong and faulty policies of the Congress Governments at the Centre and in Delhi.

To take the message across to the people, he said, workers of all the 280 mandals and 16 districts of the Delhi BJP would come out on the city’s streets on Friday and spread awareness about the issue of prise rise. Stating that the BJP had called for a nationwide strike over the issue on May 2, Dr. Vardhan asserted that the protests would be peaceful and orderly and there would be no obstruction of traffic anywhere.

On the role of the Delhi Government, he charged that instead of concentrating on bringing down the prices of essential commodities, it had been involved in taking commissions in various deals and works.

Dr. Vardhan said it also needed to be probed why every time the Congress comes to power, prices of all commodities go up. “All the claims of the Government regarding price spiral have proved to be false. The Central Government wants to shift its responsibility to the States. The price spiral is the result of its own conspiracy and the Government blames the industrialists, traders, States and foreign policies for it,” he said.

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