Chandigarh, June 7: The Chandigarh unit of the Congress party has voiced strong opposition to the central government’s recent decision to raise domestic liquid petroleum gas cylinder prices by 29 rupees. Labeling the adjustment a direct fiscal burden on ordinary citizens, regional party leadership stated that the escalation breaks structural household budgets at a time when families are already facing widespread inflationary pressures.
The political opposition surfaced following the official price revision that affected retail fuel markets across the country. Chandigarh Congress President Harmohinder Singh Lucky noted that the current pricing trajectory directly contradicts prior administrative commitments to stabilize essential commodity rates. The party asserted that successive rate updates on essential items like household utilities, transport fuels, and daily food items have placed an unsustainable economic strain on the working class, low-income groups, and homemakers.
The development sets off a renewed political face-off regarding public utility management ahead of upcoming legislative sessions. Local party leaders stated that instead of implementing strategic relief mechanisms for the public, the current central policies are driving up retail inflation. The organization has formal plans to launch regional demonstrations to keep consumer issues central to the local political discourse.
The Congress leadership maintained that the timing of the utility hike demonstrates a clear disregard for the financial challenges confronting the middle class and casual laborers.
“This increase is a direct attack on the kitchen of every home,” Chandigarh Congress President Harmohinder Singh Lucky declared. “The continuously increasing prices of cooking gas, petrol, diesel, food items and daily necessities have already broken the back of the people and now this increase in the price of LPG cylinders is like rubbing salt in the wounds.”
The regional representative further affirmed that the party will sustain a structured campaign across multiple public and institutional forums to protect the economic interests of regular consumers.
“The central government should immediately withdraw the hike in LPG cylinder prices and take concrete steps to control inflation,” Harmohinder Singh Lucky stated, adding that the organization will continue its struggle from the street to the House.
