New Delhi, February 10: Chanting anti-government slogans, thousands of BJP workers today hit the streets of Delhi to protest against price rise with party chief Nitin Gadkari accusing the UPA of presiding over a Rs 2.8 lakh crore “big scandal” by allowing commodity exchange.
Party workers converged at Jantar Mantar, the capital’s dharna hotspot, armed with party flags and posters and wearing garlands of vegetables raising slogans against Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar.
Gadkari led the charge against the Manmohan Singh government, especially on Pawar, saying that the party will intensify the fight against UPA on the issue with a gherao of Parliament on February 22 when the budget session starts.
He said the government was presiding over a Rs 2.8 lakh crore “big scandal” by allowing commodity exchange and snatching food from the “mouths of poor people”.
–PTI