Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed the authorities over the rising price of home cooking gas, diesel and petrol, and alleged that a quantity of Rs 23 lakh crore has been earned with the aid of using growing charges of those commodities withinside the last seven years.
He additionally alleged that even as sections which include farmers, salaried magnificence and labourers had been being demonetised, some industrialist pals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi had been being monetised.
At a press conference, Gandhi stated the authorities have provided you with a new concept of GDP, in which an upward thrust in GDP way a rise in charges of Gas, Diesel and Petrol.
The former Congress leader alleged that the authorities have earned Rs 23 lakh crore from growing charges of gas, diesel and petrol withinside the last seven years, and stated the humans of the country have to ask wherein is this money going.
“On one hand there's demonetisation and on the alternative there's monetisation. Whose demonetisation is taking place — farmers, labourers, small buyers and casual sector, MSMEs, contract workers, salaried class and sincere industrialists. Whose monetisation is taking place — four-five friends of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Gandhi stated.
The Congress chief alleged that a transfer of wealth is taking the place of the poor and the vulnerable to the prime minister’s friends. He stated that the authorities were panicking over not being capable of fulfilling their promises and was surviving on gas charges. Gandhi added that the day, while the global crude oil charges upward thrust to approximately USD 90-100, the state of affairs, will spiral out of control here.