New Delhi, Jan 02: The CPI-M Thursday denounced as “totally unjustified” the hike in prices of unsubsidized gas cylinders and asked the govt. to not link LPG supply with Aadhar cards.
The communist party of India-Marxist aforesaid the worth hike of Rs.220 on each unsubsidized liquefied oil gas cylinder by oil firms “will be associate intolerable burden on people”.
“Since there’s a ceiling on backed cylinders at 9, people ought to currently obtain gas cylinders at exorbitant costs.”
It aforesaid that the oil companies’ insistence that Aadhar number was needed for getting backed gas cylinders “is illegal and unauthorized”.
“It is another way to deprive households from access to gas cylinders. It goes against the Supreme Court judgement to stay the Aadhar use delayed until a final verdict.
“The union government should immediately step in to stop this linkage of offer of subsidized gas cylinders with Aadhar.”
