Monday, August 19, 2013

With eye on polls, BJP sells onions at Rs. 25 per kg in Delhi



Trying to use the rocketing onion prices to its advantage ahead of Delhi assembly elections, state BJP on Sunday sold the onions for Rs. 25 per kg against the market rate of around Rs. 80, and lambasted the city government for its "total failure" in stabilising the rates.

Accusing the Delhi government of "inaction" in controlling the price of the vegetable, Delhi BJP president Vijay Goel demanded immediate removal of Food and Civil Supplies Minister Harun Yusuf for his "complete failure to regulate the wholesale vegetable markets and take action against hoarders.

"It is appalling the way Delhi government first mismanaged the onion crisis and is now expressing its helplessness to control prices," he said.
"This is typical of this government which has been expressing helplessness on every front -- be it price rise, hike in power tariffs, collapse of water supply, lack of development in unauthorised colonies and JJ clusters and growing crime against women," Mr Goel said.

The Delhi government is selling onions between Rs. 50-55 a kg at over 1,000 points across the city.

"This government is so insensitive that it has tried to garner publicity and brush this issue under the carpet by selling onions which are rotten and not fit for consumption," Mr Goel alleged.

Delhi BJP has been attacking the city government on the issue of high onion prices. It held demonstration outside Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit's official residence at 3, Motilal Nehru Marg in Central Delhi on Wednesday.

Incidentally, BJP was voted out of power in 1998 in Delhi following spiraling onion prices. The assembly polls in Delhi are slated for November.

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