Members of the Opposition Congress party led by former Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Wednesday staged a walkout from the Madhya Pradesh Assembly in protest against the price hike in the domestic and commercial LPG cylinders.
The walkout took place as the government today presented a Rs 3.14 lakh crore state budget for 2023-24. Congress members including former Ministers Tarun Bhanot, Vijay Laxmi Sadho and Jitu Patwari created ruckus in the House over the LPG price hike issue the moment state Finance Minister Jagdish Devda started reading out the budget proposals.Speaking to ANI, Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) Chief Kamal Nath lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government for the budget proposals.
“We had demanded that Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan should reduce the price of an LPG cylinder by Rs 500 in Madhya Pradesh. He (CM Chouhan) did not give the assurance, so we walked out of the assembly,” said Nath.
“The state government is spoiling the budget of the households along with the budgets of women over the in the last three years as they had promised they would give Rs 1000 to the women. It is only their politics,” Nath added.Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had earlier this month said Rs 1000 per month will be given to woman in the state under the ‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ from International Women’s day on March 8 this year.
