New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday alleged that the UPA
government was allowing price rise of essential commodities to
benefit multinational companies and sought to blame it for the
"huge" starvation deaths in the country.
Over 4,800 people have died in the country in the past
48 months as per official records due to starvation, although
non-official records indicated to more than 20,000 deaths
across the country," BJP vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
said in a statement.
He demanded that the Centre should present statistics of
starvation deaths in the last five years.
Navqi maintained that prices of essential commodities had
further shot up after the Lok Sabha elections "to benefit the
multinational corporations that might have funded the
Congress".
"The Congress too has become an MNC with a CEO at the
helm of affairs. It has perfected the art of `packaging` like
an MNC rather than focusing on the product and quality," he
charged.
Naqvi said BJP would launch a nation-wide agitation on
August 17 to protest against the government "failure" to
control prices despite promising to do so within 100 days of
coming to power.
"The common man has suffered due to rising prices of
pulses, sugar and vegetables," he said.
Bureau Report
