Letters: Subsidy savings

Apropos the article "764,266 consumers step on gas to Giveitup" (July 6), while Prime Minister Narendra Modi exhorted people to voluntarily give up cooking gas subsidy, the momentum gained as Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, among others, announced forgoing the subsidy and joined the campaign. To encourage citizens, it was made clear the subsidy savings would go to the poor. The initiative was started by the United Progressive Alliance government but there was no follow-up to make it successful. While the previous government took the initiative, Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi in January 2014 asked then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to increase the number of subsidised gas cylinders from nine to 12. If the government and the party are working at cross purposes, the result could be disaster. Against this, if the leader leads from the front and people working under him lead by example, the virtuous results are there for everyone to see.

Naresh Saxena New Delhi

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