The Delhi BJP unit accused the Arvind Kejriwal government on Thursday of not making any demand for supply of onion from the Centre, and claimed that the ruling AAP was trying to politically exploit the high prices of the kitchen staple in the upcoming Assembly polls.
The AAP government cancelled an order of four truckloads of daily onion supply in the first week of October, Leader of Opposition in the Delhi Assembly Vijender Gupta tweeted in hindi and attached with it a purported letter of Delhi State Civil Supply Cooperation Limited in support of his claim.
With soaring onion prices leaving people in tears and the Delhi Assembly polls just round the corner, the ruling AAP and the opposition BJP were indulged in an ever-intensifying blamegame.
The AAP government's Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain wrote a letter to Union Consumer Affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan alleging that the National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India (NAFED) has stopped supply of onions to Delhi.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal too on Wednesday accused the central government of stopping the supply of onions at controlled price to Delhi.
Claiming that Centre provided onion to the Delhi government from its stock of 56000 metric tonnes at the rate of Rs 15.90 per kg, Gupta said, "However, with eye on the Assembly polls, Chief Minister Kejriwal and his party spent crores of rupees on advertisements telling people that they will provide them onion at subsidised rates."
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