Bhopal:  On Wednesday, opposition Congress party members protested the price increase for household and commercial LPG cylinders by leaving the Madhya Pradesh Assembly under the leadership of former chief minister Kamal Nath.

The protest was held as the government today unveiled its state budget for 2023–2024, at Rs 3.14 lakh crore.

At the moment that state Finance Minister Jagdish Devda began reading out the budget plans, members of the Congress, including former ministers Tarun Bhanot, Vijay Laxmi Sadho, and Jitu Patwari, stirred up a commotion in the House over the LPG price hike issue.

Chairman of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), Kamal Nath, criticised the budget proposals of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-run state government. "We had urged Madhya Pradesh's Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to lower the cost of each LPG cylinder by Rs. 500. We left the assembly since the CM did not provide the promise, he said. "During the last three years, the state administration has ruined household budgets as well as the budgets of women while promising to pay them Rs. 1000. Only their politics, he added.

As of International Women's Day on March 8 of this year, women in the state will begin receiving Rs 1000 each month under the "Ladli Behna Yojana," according to a statement made earlier this month by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
"Inflation is the main issue; the government needs to provide solutions. The PCC Chief stated that they were there to present the budget and raise the price of petrol by Rs. 50.

Outside the state assembly this morning, members of the Congress party protested the price increase for personal and commercial LPG cylinders.

Today again the petrol price has increased," declared Kunal Choudhary, a Congress Legislator from the Kalapipal Constituency in Shajapur district, during the protest. As inflation increases. It is obvious that the government needs to lower petrol prices and provide the people relief.

"The LPG is provided at a rate of Rs. 500 wherever there is a Congress government, and it is our demand that the price be cut to Rs. 500 here as well," Choudhary said.

The state government led by the BJP speaks lies, according to Tarun Banot, a Congress member of parliament from Jabalpur West. The government buries all the data and pats itself on the back after releasing the economic survey report on Tuesday. We received a gift today when the cost of home LPG cylinders increased by Rs 50. How does this relate to economic development?

"What type of economic progress is taking place in Madhya Pradesh when women are having issues. The government that is accountable for budgetary plundering, inflation, and corruption will not be recognised, Bhanot continued.
The Madhya Pradesh assembly's budget session got underway on Monday.

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