Vijayawada: It is not often that any protest leaves people not connected with politics happy.
On Saturday, the Telugu Desam’s Urban unit managed to not only please the people at the Lenin Centre, but also drive home the point that the common man is reeling under the high prices of essential commodities.
TD activists took out a rally from the party office to the Lenin Centre, pushing trolleys laden with vegetables and raising slogans against the government.
Stating that the people were in no position to buy essential commodities, including vegetables, TD’s Vijayawada parliamentary party constituency in-charge Kesineni Nani started the sale of vegetables, at prices that left the buyers delirious with joy.
All the seven to eight varieties of vegetables were sold at Rs 1-a-kg. In no time, the vegetables were sold out, even as the party leaders continued to berate the Congress. Nani reminded that the TD government had introduced the Rytu Bazaars in the state but the present regime has turned them into business centres for the middlemen.
TD central constituency in-charge B. Umamaheswara Rao said that the people would teach a fitting lesson to the government whenever elections are held. “The flawed policies of the government are the reasons behind the skyrocketing prices,” Rao said.
East constituency in-charge Gadde Rammohan said that the party will rein in the prices of essential commodities after it returns to power.
TD West constituency in-charge Nagul Meera, party urban president Buddha Venkanna, Telugu Yuvata president Devineni Chandrasekhar and Telugu Mahila president Chennupati Usha Rani were also present.
