Chandigarh, Aug 30 (PTI) Congress leaders here on Tuesday alleged that inflation and unemployment were rising in the country due to the wrong policies of the BJP-led Centre.
Ahead of the Congress ‘Halla Bol Maharally’ at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on September 4 against “rising inflation and unemployment”, party leaders here held a meeting that was chaired by party’s Punjab affairs in-charge Harish Choudhary.
Shortly before the meeting began in the afternoon, party leaders hit out at the Modi government, saying prices of all essential commodities have skyrocketed while unemployment too had risen.
Inflation and unemployment are key concerns as these affect every section of society and Congress has always taken up the issues which impact common people, they said.
Choudhary said Congress has from time to time been raising issues of public concern. While unemployment has gone up, inflation has broken the back of the common man, he said.
Leader of Opposition in Punjab, Pratap Singh Bajwa said inflation, unemployment are such issues which impact every section.
Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring also said every section is affected by inflation, especially common people and the poor while unemployment is also on the rise.
Warring said prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and other essential commodities are beyond common man’s reach.
He said the Congress has been raising these and other issues concerning common people from the streets to the Parliament.
Warring said the party rally in Delhi will witness huge participation from Punjab.
The meeting was also attended by party MPs from the state, former ministers, sitting and ex-MLAs.
Warring said Congress workers from Punjab will reach Delhi on the day of the rally. The workers will first gather at two places in the city’s outskirts from where they will all go together to the rally venue, he said.
The PCC president said all the Congress MLAs and those who contested the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections attended the meeting here.
The meeting also deliberated upon the arrangements for the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which will reach Punjab during its last leg. The Yatra will remain in Punjab for over a week and will touch most constituencies before entering Jammu and Kashmir.
Among other leaders taking part in the meeting included senior leaders Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa and O P Soni. PTI SUN CHS TDS TDS
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