Dim days for Ujjwala: High global prices ring death knell for LPG scheme

Sector watchers say budgetary allocations for LPG subsidy may soon vanish, going the way of kerosene subsidy in the Budget 2021

In August 2019, Jairam Ramesh, Congress leader, former Union minister, and MP, made a startling observation. Speaking at a book launch, he said not everything about Narendra Modi could be demo­nised. On the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY), which enabled subsidised gas cylinders to women, he said: “In 2019, all of us in the political discourse made fun of one or two of his programmes, but it has turned out in all electoral studies that the PMUY is one single programme which has been able to connect him with crores and crores of women and given him the political traction