Congress holds protests against price rise in Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad | Friday | 24th June, 2016

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The protest in Ahmedabad city was arranged in front of the Danapith vegetable market led by Ahmedabad city Congress president Chetan Raval. Raval said that even the farmers were not benefiting from high vegetable prices in markets. Watch Video: What’s making newsAddressing the party workers, including a large number of women workers, Raval said that tomato, a basic ingredient in all vegetables, was selling at Rs 100 per kg, equal to the price of apple. Raval said that BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections had made price rise one of electoral agendas and accused the then Congress-led UPA government of failure to arrest prices of essential commodities, including vegetables. He said it were middlemen and commission agents in markets who benefited the most..