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| NC members speak against LPG cap, join opposition chorus in Assembly | | | Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Oct 3: The debate on LPG cap in the State Assembly today cut across the party lines with one singular distinction. The ruling NC legislators spoke against the LPG cap as if they were members of the opposition in the State.
Those watching the debate from the Press Gallery wondered for sometime whether a senior NC leader Chowdhary Mohammad Ramzan had joined the ranks of the opposition. He spoke against the LPG cap and also against the scarcity of cooking gas in the Valley. In the same breath he said in the past the central government would increase the prices of LPG, diesel and petrol in small dozes but this time the hike was huge and made in a single go. This prompted Mohammad Yusuf Tarigama to ask the NC leader whether he wanted the poor people of the State to be hit in small dozes and made to bleed through small cuts and wounds.
Mehbooba Mufti, leader of opposition PDP in her speech during the debate asked the members of the treasury benches to stop just voicing concern over the LPG cap and diesel hike and instead ask the government of which they were the elected members to so something to give relief to the common man.
"The NC-Congress government is putting its thumb to every order passed by the centre and it is strange that without doing anything practical the members of the treasury benches are joining the chorus against the LPG cap and diesel hike," Mehbooba Mufti said.
Tarigama also drew the attention of the house to a recent UN report which had said that 73% of Indians cannot afford two square meals while the hype of maintaining the growth rate in the country has actually become a matter of multiplying the profits of multi-national companies and corporate houses.
Harsh Dev Singh of the National Panthers Party said at Rs.50 per kilogram sugar had now started creating a bitter taste in the morning tea of the poor people as the skyrocketing prices of onions would bring tears to the eyes of the people without even being cut by the consumers.
The members also raised the question of issuing fresh documents to the consumers and said that various dealers in the State were taking the consumers for a ride on this account. Members said given the speed with which the various gas companies were preparing the documents of the consumers it is quite possible the process would take several months to complete.
Members warned the government that given the total confusion and chaos that rules the cooking gas sector in the State it is likely that tremendous pressure would now be put on electricity consumption and also the forests in the State.
"The people have to prepare and eat their meals. In the absence of the cooking gas, they will use whatever other means are available to them for cooking purposes," the government was warned. |
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