Jammu, Jan 18: Expressing concern over the rise in prices of essential commodities, the Bharatiya Janta Party state President, Shamsher Singh Manhas today said the party would launch week long programmes in all the mandals of the Jammu province to expose the Congress-led UPA for its anti-people policies.
 Addressing a press conference here, Manhas said the prices of sugar, atta, rice, tea, pulses, ghee, oils, medicines, cement, steel, bricks had shown steep increase and the Congress-led UPA was least bothered. “Today, not only poor but even a middle class family is finding it very difficult to manage two-time meals, leave aside other luxuries of life,” he said.
 He said the BJP was committed to raise voice against the issue and the party besides coming on roads, would also raise it in the upcoming sessions of Parliament and the state assembly.
 Releasing a pamphlet displaying the prices of essentials during the BJP-led NDA and the present UPA government, he said it was not for the first time that the prices had gone up, the past record too shows that whenever Congress comes to power, “it focuses on how to benefit” a handful of big business houses, hoarders and black marketers, as a result of which prices shoot up.
 “The BJP-led NDA was committed for the welfare and survival of masses. A person earning Rs 50 during the rule was in a position to feed his family properly, but unfortunately today when even a labourer earns Rs 150 per day, he can’t manage to meet the ends,” he said.
 He said the people who are the most sufferers need to get united against the UPA’s ‘anti-people policies’. “If still we remain silent, the day is not far away when the people will be committing suicides due to hunger as they will not be in a position to purchase food,” he said.

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