Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi Slams Centre Over Rising Inflation

Mumbai: Taking a jibe at the central government over rising inflation, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Thursday that inflation is increasing in the country and income is decreasing.

Taking to Twitter, the Congress leader shared a newspaper article, which reads, “Shock for the common man: Inflation reached a record level in 7 months, retail inflation in January reached at 6.01 per cent.”

He further said that the Modi government has snatched away the laughter of many.

“It is clear from the data – inflation is increasing, income is decreasing. But how to measure the suffering and pain of the people? How many families are forced to eat dry roti? How many children were taken out of school? How many women’s jewellery was mortgaged? The Modi government has snatched away the laughter of how many?” he tweeted.

https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi/status/1494154476185436162?s=20&t=GJVoTRxR-w_ckkT4fsT_Eg

According to the Crisil report, the urban poor faced the highest inflation in January. The latest retail inflation data – as the Crisil report suggests – shows that sequentially, the CPI rose 0.5 per cent in the two months to January, which was similar to the rate seen in the previous two months.

Food CPI inflation rose to 5.4 per cent from 4 per cent in the previous month and 2 per cent in January 2021, fuel inflation declined to 9.3 per cent from 11 per cent in the previous month but rose to 3.9 per cent in January 2021. CPI inflation was slightly lower at 6 per cent compared to 6.1 per cent in the previous month but was up from 5.5 per cent in January 2021.

Crisil finds “rural CPI inflation higher at 6.1 per cent in January compared with 5.4 per cent previous month and urban CPI inflation stable at 5.9 per cent as the previous month.

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