Advertisement

BJP Leaders' Unique Protest Against Price Rise

The BJP took to the streets against price rise on Wednesday with senior party leaders like Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj addressing hundreds of supporters in Delhi and taking on the Centre on the issue.

  • The BJP took to the streets against price rise with senior party leaders like Nitin Gadkari and Sushma Swaraj addressing hundreds of supporters in Delhi and taking on the Centre on the issue. (AP photo)
  • BJP supporters gathered at Jantar Mantar in large numbers with flags and posters to protest alleged government apathy towards rising prices of essential commodities.(NDTV photo)
  • Chanting anti-government slogans, thousands of BJP workers hit the streets of Delhi to protest against price rise with party chief Nitin Gadkari accusing the UPA of presiding over a Rs 2.8 lakh crore "big scandal" by allowing commodity exchange.(NDTV photo)
  • Party workers converged at Jantar Mantar, the capital's dharna hotspot, armed with party flags and posters and wearing garlands of vegetables raising slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.(NDTV photo)
  • Another banner says: 'Iss Cong ke sashan mein, kuch nahin milta ration mein'.(NDTV photo)
  • Gadkari led the charge against the Manmohan Singh government, especially on Pawar, saying that the party will intensify the fight against UPA on the issue with a gherao of Parliament on February 22 when the budget session starts.(NDTV photo)
  • Nitin Gadkari also invited "all parties" to fight "shoulder to shoulder" against the government on the issue of price rise. "The prices are rising and our Agriculture Minister is not concerned about it. He is concerned about IPL matches. Is he the Civil Supplies Minister or the Cricket Minister, I don't know. (NDTV photo)
  • Using cricket analogy, Gadkari said "Price rise is like one-day match. The price of sugar has crossed half-century while price of 'daal' crossed century. Pawar is the coach of the team,". (NDTV photo)
  • Nitin Gadkari has held the "wrong economic policies of the government" responsible for price rise, and asserted that not just the Agriculture Minister but the entire Cabinet of the Manmohan Singh government is to be blamed for food inflation.(NDTV photo)
Listen to the latest songs, only on JioSaavn.com