Partial impact, but utmost necessary

The skyrocketing prices of essential commodities and edibles are breaking the back of the common people and it has become more painful with the steep rise in bus and Metro fares in Delhi. UPA-led Congress government at the Centre and Sheila Dikshit -led Congress government in the City are boastful of claiming that Congress is for Aam Admi. But the ground reality tells altogether a different and painful story. They say that they working for Aam Admi, while the common people whom they call Aam Admi are taking their last breadth under the situation of unchecked price rise of all commodities. The Opposition BJP in the City as well as in Parliament is itself confused what to do and passing through the worst phases of leadership crisis since the party took birth in 1980. It has become directionless of which the ruling Congress is taking full advantage . In the absence of formidable opposition , the Congress government of Sheila Dikshit is functioning according to its whims. It has little care for Aam Admi so is the position of Congress-led UPA Government at the Centre. Whenever the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar is asked of the skyrocketing price rise of editible items, he says that the situation will remain the same untill the kharif crop and doing nothing at administrative level to check it. The poor common people have been forced by CM Sheila Dikshit to leave Delhi as they are unable to live and have both ends meet. Her claim of espousing the cause of Aam Admi is completely false and misleading. She knows well whatever her government is doing is being accepted by the common people as there is no formidable opposition against her. The Opposition BJP in Delhi has become complacent and the need of the hour for them is to wake-up and rein in this unbridled government of Sheila Dikshit. After a long time, Delhi BJP has come on the streets against skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, edible and rise in bus and Metro fares, though the Bandh call given by it has made little impact. Though the BJP-sponsored Bandh against price rise kept the essential and transport services out of the purview of the Bandh, it is good that it has shown the government that it is fully prepared to come out on the streets against its anti-people policy. BJP had also not made ground work for the Bandh call to make it a complete success. It must have tried to mobilise all opposition parties against the price rise to paralyse the government.