Union Minister for Women and Child Development Minister, Smriti Irani blamed the rising fuel prices on free vaccines, ration and the poor in India, a Congress leader has said.
Mahila Congress president Netta D’Souza confronted Ms. Irani on the issue on a Guwahati-bound flight from New Delhi on Sunday. Their face-off continued on the aerobridge after the flight landed at the Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi Airport.
While the Opposition leader travelled to Guwahati for a party programme, the Minister was scheduled to chair the zonal convention of State governments and stakeholders of the northeast for ensuring an optimum impact of three missions — Poshan 2.0, Vatsalya and Shakti — launched recently by her Ministry.
