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Parliament proceedings | Opposition slams Centre in Lok Sabha over price rise and GST

In a dramatic twist to the debate on price rise in the Lok Sabha on Monday, Trinamool Congress (TMC) Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar bit into a raw brinjal to ask if the Narendra Modi government was encouraging people to consume raw food as cooking gas or LPG cylinders were no longer affordable.

Initiating a debate on the issue of the price rise in Lok Sabha, Congress member Manish Tewari said that the Centre’s policies have have hit 25 crore households in the country hard and widened the divide between the rich and the poor.

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