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JORHAT: The Jorhat district unit of the Congress led by AICC secretary and in-charge of Upper Assam, Vikas Upadhyay, along with APCC executive president Rana Goswami took out a rally across the town to create awareness on steep rise in prices of commodities.
The rally included a large number of women holding banners and placards. Upadhyay and Goswami interacted with a large number of shopkeepers of Chowk Bazar over the sharp hike in prices of goods and enquired about their sales.Both the leaders also asked about the Centre extending GST on a variety of other items and its impact on sales.
Traders mostly complained about decline in sales due to steep increase in prices of items and also due to the popularity of online businesses and shopping malls. The leaders said that the programme was undertaken to know the people's reaction to skyrocketing prices of goods and to make them aware of the government burdening the people while favouring the big industrial houses. Since over a month, the Congress party here has been organizing protest rallies against price rise and issue of ED summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
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