Amid a severe shortage of cooking gas Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) across the country and rapidly rising prices, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLAs in Punjab held a protest outside the Assembly on Sunday during the Assembly session. Raising strong slogans against the BJP led government at the Centre, the MLAs described the crisis as a result of government mismanagement and warned that the party would intensify its agitation if the situation is not addressed.
Leading the protest, AAP Punjab Chief Spokesperson and MLA Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said, “Today the common citizens of the country are suffering because of the Modi government’s flawed foreign policies. In the race to side with Israel and the United States, the Centre has sidelined the country’s interests, which has affected the supply of oil and gas.
Until the prices of cylinders are reduced and supply is restored smoothly, the Aam Aadmi Party will not sit quietly, from the streets to the Vidhan Sabha.” AAP Punjab Working President Amansher Singh Shery Kalsi highlighted the ground reality and criticised the statements of BJP leaders.
He said, “BJP ministers and leaders are sitting in air conditioned rooms and falsely claiming that there is no shortage of gas in the country. If they want to see the reality, they should look at the long queues where people are standing hungry and thirsty for hours.
Today the situation is such that stoves in homes have gone cold. In houses where weddings are taking place, even rotis are not being cooked. The indifference of the Modi government has snatched food from the plates of the poor.” Issuing a warning to the Central government, the Aam Aadmi Party said that if the supply of LPG is not normalised soon, BJP spokespersons and ministers will be gheraoed across the country.