New Delhi, Apr 1 (UNI) Hundreds of women in the national capital today took to the streets in protest against the sky-rocketing prices while blaming the Congress-led state government for playing fraud with people.
Wearing garlands made out of vegetables around their neck and holding placards against price rise in their hands, women from various walks of life, including both housewives and working ladies, assembled at the famous Jantar Mantar and proceeded
towards Parliament Street.
''It is we who have to manage the house expenses. We become the biggest sufferers when the prices increase,'' Sujata Sharma, a houswife said.
All the protestors expressed their anguish over the increased price of LPG cylinders, along with other essential commodities, affected after the announcement of Delhi Budget 2010-11 recently.
''Proposing heavy increase through the Budget and making small concessions afterwards is like playing fraud on the people of Delhi by the Congress Government,'' BJP Mahila Morcha Delhi Pradesh President Sarita Chaudhary alleged.
The demonstrators were accompanied by BJP Delhi Pradesh President Om Prakash Kohli, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly Vijay Kumar Malhotra, National General Secretary Vijay Goel and many others. Many party councillors had
also joined in.
They alleged that the government usually takes the excuse of Commonwealth Games to cover up its failure to curb the price rise and sometimes revenue deficit.
''Why does not the government control administrative expenses and desist from wasting money on advertisements?'' they asked.
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