Expressing anger over soaring prices of essential commodities, State Youth Congress president Mohammed Haris Nalapad has termed the BJP-led Governments at both the Centre and the State as “pick-pocket governments” that were “pick-pocketing the commoners through price rise”.
Addressing a gathering during a rally against price rise in Hubballi on Sunday, Mr. Nalapad said that the Union Government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is telling lies and consequently, prices of petrol, diesel, domestic LPG cylinders and essential commodities are skyrocketing by the day. People should join hands with the Congress in defeating such a “government that is telling lies”, he said.
Referring to how there was no big change in fuel prices during the recent Assembly elections in five States, he said that it showed how the Union Government is cheating the common people. Soon after the elections were over, prices started rising and now, they have gone up even higher. “It is time that such a ‘robbing and pick-pocketing’ government is taught a lesson,” he said.
