BHOPAL: AICC general secretary and former chief minister Digvijay Singh on Sunday accepted that inflation is the greatest challenge facing the nation today. Addressing a gathering of state Mahila Congress workers at a function here, Digvijay Singh defended the Manmohan Singh government s decision on reducing subsidy on cooking gas cylinders.
"You must be wondering why such a step was taken to reduce subsidy on cooking gas cylinders," Singh said. From petroleum products including sale of petrol and diesel, the Union government earns Rs 85,000 crore as taxes. But the subsidy towards cooking gas costs the exchequer an exorbitant Rs 1.4 lakh crore. The state governments earn as much as Rs 1.1 lakh crore from VAT alone but do not want to shell-out anything towards subsidising cooking gas.
Digvijay Singh said that if the Union government was giving subsidy on six gas cylinders, then states should fund the rebate on at least three more cylinders. That way there would be nine gas cylinders at subsidised rates available for every family. Congress-ruled states like Rajasthan and Haryana have already taken the decision to subsidise the three additional cylinders, he claimed.
He contended that Madhya Pradesh sells gas cylinders at the highest price in the country. The BJP calls for Bharat bandh to protest cut in cooking gas subsidy while it sells the same at the steepest rate in a state ruled by the party, Digvijay Singh said. According to the AICC general secretary, the price kerosene increased from Rs 3 per litre to Rs 10 per litre during the BJP-led NDA rule at the Centre. In the UPA, the prices of kerosene has been raised only once by Rs 2, he claimed. But kerosene is selling in the blackmarket at Rs 35 to Rs 40 per litre. And why is the Congress women s wing in Madhya Pradesh sleeping over it?
Singh asked the Congress women workers to spread the word of kerosene blackmarketeering throughout the state and the assembly elections would be won. Go to every village and inform the people that the BJP government is selling the Centre s schemes as their own. The funds are coming from the Union government and the BJP state is only changing the names of the schemes and proclaiming them as their own. You do this much of a task and the Congress will come back to power, he added.
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