What's Cooking? Papads, Tea by Cong in Protest of LPG Mess
Pics: Spoorthi Ullal
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS/VD)
Mangalore, Jul 29: While men provided firewood women prepared papad and tea on a makeshift oven in front of the district commissioner's office here on Friday July 29.
The unique protest was held by the district Congress leaders to demonstrate the difficulties faced by the common man in the wake of the chaos prevailing in distribution of LPG cylinders.
Addressing the gathering KPCC secretary Ivan D'Souza said that the state government which came to power promising many projects in its manifesto, failed to provide even basic facilities like water supply and electricity.
He added that energy minister Shobha Karandlaje's claim that under her ministry people are most satisfied was hogwash. He urged the state government to distribute LPG cylinders as per the earlier system. The new system has created confusion and problems to the people, he said.
MLA U T Khader addressing the protestors said that right from the day the BJP government came to power, it has not brought into effect any single people-friendly system. He noted that the prevailing problem in LPG cylinder distribution has taken place because of agencies, and public should not suffer because of them. Instead of correcting the fault at the village level, the government has initiated technical way of sorting out by way of ‘verification' through website, he said.
Several citizens who approached the department concerned to set right the problems regarding LPG connections were sent back disappointed, Khader said, and added that if the agencies trigger more problems to people by not distributing LPG cylinders, they can approach any of the Congress activists who will help them.
Congress leaders Ibrahim Kodijal, Shashidhar Hegde, K Ashraf, Nagendra Kumar, Lancelot Pinto, corporator Appi among others were present.