Rajashtan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday announced that from April 1, 2023, the price of LPG cylinders for BPL families will be Rs 500 for 12 cylinders per year.
"The issue of price rise is serious. We will give 12 gas cylinders in a year at Rs 500 each to BPL families after April 1 next year. No one should remain deprived of benefits of government welfare schemes," Ashok Gehlot said at Alwar.
He also termed Ujjawal Yojana 'BJP's drama' saying that "the tanks are lying vacant".
"The rate of these LPG cylinders have gone up from Rs 400 to 1,040. On BPL and poor, we will conduct a study and in one year, 12 cylinders will be available at Rs 500 each which is now available at Rs 1,040. This is the promise I want to make with you. This will be a memory from Rahul Gandhi's BJY," the veteran Congress leader said.
Further addressing the gathering, Gehlot said: "In our budget to be presented next year, we will bring a plan to distribute kitchen kits to reduce the burden of inflation for poor and BPL as flour, daal, rice etc., have become dearer.
"We will take steps to reduce the threat of inflation on poor families," he added.
Meanwhile, Rajendra Rathore, deputy leader of the opposition in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly, said in a tweet that "fearing his slipping support base and public anger in the state, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot made the announcement of giving LPG cylinders for Rs 500 from April 1 in front of Yuvraj Rahul Gandhi, but this announcement will also prove to be fake like the promises made to youth regarding employment and loan waiver promises made for farmers".
(With inputs from IANS)
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