Sit-in protests price rise of goods
Source: Chronicle News Service
Kakching, April 04 2022:
District Congress Committee, Kakching and Block Congress Committee, Kakching organised a sit-in protest at BCC Kakching office as part of the nationwide 'Mehangai Mukta Bharat Dharna and March' of the Congress party on Monday.
Addressing the sit-in participants, INC candidate from Kakching AC in the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly election Kshetrimayum Kennedy contended that ever since BJP came to power, prices of commodities, especially petroleum products have been steadily increasing and as such All India Congress Committee has been carrying out the nationwide campaign to make the public aware about the anti-people policies of the government.
He also blamed that the BJP saying that the hike in prices of essential items such as medicine, petrol, diesel and LPG tantamount to snatching the rights and lives of the common people.
He also appealed to the public to stand united against the BJP government's failure to acknowledge hardships besetting the public and find solution to their grievances.
At the end of the sit-in protest, several slogans such as "Down, down BJP government", "Down, down Narendra Modi" and "Long live Congress" were also raised by the protestors.