Modi means inflation and price rise: Congress spokesperson
The Hindu
‘The country is seeing the highest rate of unemployment’
Stating that the Narendra Modi government’s new year gift to the nation was inflation and price rise, Congress national spokesperson Mohan Prakash said the revised GST slab rates will increase tax on goods that are part of the lives of 80% of people.
Mr Prakash, who was in Hyderabad as part of Congress’ campaign against Modi government’s ‘loot’ of the country, said the country was seeing the highest ever unemployment and the inflationary pressure mounting at 14.23% - the highest in the last 10 years. But this government was least bothered unlike the previous governments that had intervened to ease pressure on the common man.
Speaking to reporters along with TPCC president A. Revanth Reddy, working president Mahesh Kumar Goud and senior leaders Mallu Ravi, Sravan Dasoju and Vinod Reddy here, he said the new year will force the poor and middle class to spend more on basic needs including clothes, footwear and even withdrawing own money from the ATMs.