Opposition blames PM Modi’s foreign policy for fuel crisis in rural India

AAP leader Sanjay Singh said 21 crore LPG connections are in the rural areas. “I want to ask you, in the war in the Middle East between the U.S.-Israel and Iran, why are you pandering to Israel as a result of which India has to suffer from gas shortage?” he asked. Demanding a separate discussion on the issue, he said the entire country, be it villages or cities or every locality, was standing in queues. Citing the closure of tile factories in Gujarat due to gas shortage, he said: “Where is the Prime Minister of the country hiding when the nation is grappling with the gas crisis? Please bring him out… The whole country is standing in queue for gas and the PM is hiding.”

DMK leader Tiruchi Siva too asked for a separate discussion on the impact of the war on Iran. He said the situation created a huge impact with regards to fuel supply, especially natural gas and cooking gas. “Every State is convening urgent meetings on how to address the issues. Restaurants are being closed due to shortage of gas. The prices are going up and homemakers are suffering. Is it not very important that Parliament discusses that? We feel very sad,” Mr. Siva said. “We don’t know what is going to happen…how the economic recession that emerges in some other nation impacts the rest of the world,” he said, adding that the fuel crisis would impact rural lives the hardest.