Tripura Congress storms streets over food price inflation
Udaipur (Tripura): Overcoming all hurdles, Trinamool Congress (TMC) will wrest power from the CPI(M)-led Left Front in Tripura in the 2018 Assembly elections, a top TMC leader on Sunday said here. “We will wrest power from the Left Front by overcoming all hurdles.
This is our mission. People of the plains and hills of Tripura will vote for us and we will present them with good governance,” TMC vice-president Mukul Roy said at a mass gathering.
Altogether 2,150 supporters of different political parties like CPI(M), Congress and CPI(ML) today joined TMC in presence of Roy. “TMC is now a national party and Congress is a party of circus, which lost all its teeth in Tripura and has no ability to deliver any good anywhere in the country,” Roy said.
The CPI(M) is a “divided house” in the state and has failed to provide good governance and was ruling the state by its might as Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee did in West Bengal, he claimed. “In Tripura, 68 per cent of the population live below poverty line, eight lakh people are landless and there is no electricity or drinking water in the hilly areas. This government has no moral right to remain in power,” Roy added.
Meanwhile, Tripura Congress hit the street of the state capital here demanding immediate steps to arrest price rise of essential commodities and food price inflation in Tripura for past two years.
The workers burnt effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi last evening to protest against the price hike and regular inflation in food item.
Besides, Central government the party blamed Left front government in Tripura for inaction to regulate retail market.
“A few edible items are coming from outside and their price at source has also reduced substantially recently but in Tripura markets, it does not have any impact. In the name of inflation even the price of local grown vegetables have also gone up and the government kept mum,” alleged Congress state president Birajit Sinha.
He alleged that after assumption of Narendra Modi led government at the Centre, total consumer market was deregulated to protect the interest of some business conglomerates who have been producing each and everything under certain brand.
“Despite protest several times in past two years, Mr Modi did not take any action to regulate the market or to check the food price inflation.
As a result poor people of the country have faced serious threat of mal-nutrition and hunger made a cascading effect on society,” Sinha alleged.
Accusing Chief Minister Manik Sarkar , he stated that the state administration has totally failed to protect the right of the common people and it did not take any action against illegal hoarding of essential items and no regulation in retail market.
“Nowhere in the country potato and onion are sold at Rs 40 and Rs 80 per kilogram, when whole sale price drop to Rs 15 and Rs 18 at the source respectively. No there is no problem in transportation, as highway is functioning well and goods train service operating smoothly in Tripura,” Sinha alleged.
He further stated that the edible items in the state have been sold even more than MRP and there is no mechanism of surveillance in the market and added that the common people have lost hope to live in this world because of mutual business deal of BJP and Leftist. (UNI)