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PM asks states to contain prices, to hold CMs meet
on Jan 27:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today chaired a
Cabinet
Committee on Prices to discuss measures to check the rising prices
of essential
commodities
like sugar and foodgrains
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Guwahati /Imphal /Shimla:
Various political parties and other groups staged massive
demonstrations the against price rise in different Indian cities on
Saturday.
In
Assam, the Assam Mahila Parishad, the women’s wing of regional party
Assam Gana Parisahd (AGP), vent their ire against the Congress-led
Central government.
Over
20,000 women moved through the streets of Guwahati to register their
protest. ”It is spontaneous gathering because women have to manage
everything, - women have to manage house, hearth and it is woman who
suffers the most when prices increase a lot. So women have
spontaneously come together and women have come together to
protest,” said Alaka Sharma, chief of AMP and a state deputy.
Protests also rocked Manipur , with trade unions like the All India
Trade Union Congress, an affiliate of Communist Party of India, All
Manipur Trade Union Council and All Manipur Nupi Marup staging a
mass demonstration in Imphal.
The
trade unions sought immediate measures from the Central Government
to control the price rise, stop disinvestment in profit-making
state-run companies and provide social security to labourers in both
the organised and unorganised sector.
In
Shimla, over 2,500, BJP leaders and workers hit the street with
placards denouncing the price rise. They also raised slogans against
the Prime Minister.
Rising inflation, particularly in the sphere of food items, has
sparked recurring street protests across India and put political
pressure on the Congress-led UPA Government to find a solution
without hurting economic recovery.
The
Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said on Friday that winter-sown crop
prospects were “very encouraging”, but the country needs to pay
farmers a good price for their produce to boost output further.
A
good harvest is likely to bring down food inflation, which
accelerated to nearly 18 percent in late February from a year ago,
and also put pressure on the government to export wheat and rice as
official agencies do not have enough storage space.
(ANI)
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