Cong women’s wing protests price rise

Our Correspondent
Mandi Ahmedgarh, July 15

To counter the protests by leaders and activists of various saffron outfits, office-bearers and workers of the women’s wing of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) organised protests in the town and surrounding localities of Amargarh assembly segment.

Led by women’s wing chief Mamta Dutta and state coordinator of the Mahila Congress Pritpal Kaur Wadla, the protestors burnt an effigy of Prime Minister Narinder Modi after taking out a protest rally at Dhulkot Chowk.

Rollback of the hike in prices of LPG, petrol and diesel, besides other essential commodities, was the major demand raised by the protesters.

Addressing a gathering of activists of various wings of the Congress party, speakers, including Mamta Dutta, Pritpal Kaur Wadla, Lata Verma, Ranjit Kaur Channo and Sandeep Kumar, alleged that the Union Government was bent upon appeasing corporate houses owned by Adanis and Ambanis at the cost of economic stability of the nation in general and Punjab in particular.

Terming petro fuels as the foundation of economic feasibility of any region, Dutta and Wadla regretted that prices of petrol, diesel and LPG had been increasing continuously, even though the prices of crude oil had witnessed a steep fall.

Claiming that women were the worst affected due to the defective policies of the Union Government, the speakers lamented that the government had not spared even the kitchen of the poor as the cost of domestic LPG cylinder had almost doubled during the NDA regime.