New Delhi: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday attacked the Narendra Modi government over the issue of high prices of cooking gas and said if the government is honest about its Ujjwala scheme it should give subsidy to the poor and reduce inflation.
“90% of the cylinders given under Ujjwala are lying in disuse and women are forced to cook using firewood because the BJP government has doubled the rates of a cylinder in the last seven years and reduced subsidy to a negligible amount,” she tweeted.
“If the government is honest about Ujjwala then it should give subsidy to the poor and reduce inflation,” she said and tagged a media report on the problems being faced by the poor due to rising prices of cooking gas.
Priyanka’s attack on the government came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched Ujjwala 2.0 ā the second phase of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) ā by virtually presenting free LPG connections to some beneficiaries in Mahoba in Uttar Pradesh, where Assembly elections are scheduled early next year.