February 11, 2010 9:10 AM

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BJP to rake up price rise issue in Budget Session

Top BJP leaders today announced to take up the issue of price rise with vigour in the forthcoming Budget session of Parliament. Addressing a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi the Party president Mr Nitin Gadkari and the Leader of Oppossition in the Lok Sabha Mrs Sushma Swaraj said that the rising prices of essential commodities have badly affected the masses. Both the leaders charged the government with failure in controlling the price rise and called for effective steps to deal with the situation. In his address Mr Murli Manohar Joshi alleged that government is in league with hoarders. A large number of people joined the leaders in the protest rally. Earlier some leaders of the party demanded setting up a joint Parliamentary Committee to probe into wrong and malicious import-export policies and the alleged connivance of the government with the greedy middleman. AIR correspondent adds that the BP had launched a nation wide campaign to protest against the price rise.<br/>

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