Gujarat: Congress organises protests against rise in vegetable prices in the state

Addressing the party workers, including a large number of women workers, Raval said that tomato was selling at Rs 100 per kg, equal to the price of apple.

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Raval said that BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha elections had made price rise one of their electoral agendas and accused the then Congress-led UPA government of failure to arrest prices of essential commodities, including vegetables. The then chief minister Narendra Modi had promised to bring down the prices within 90 days if his party came to power. But two years had passed since Modi became prime minister, the prices had not come down. Instead, prices had gone up.

Raval said that even the farmers were not benefitting from high vegetable prices in markets. He said middlemen and commission agents benefitted the most. The state government, Raval said, was just overlooking and not doing anything to check price rise.

The protests against rising prices of vegetables were also organised in major cities of Vadodara, Surat, Rajkot, Bhavnagar and Gandhinagar as well.