New Delhi - BJP has launched a one-day jail bharo agitation on Friday across the country with party leaders and workers courting arrest to protest against the hike in prices of essential commodities and petrol products.
The agitation was launched in Delhi Arun Jaitley, Rajnath Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and other leaders.
The jail bharo stir is the culmination of the 'Jan Sangarsh Abhiyan (Public Struggle Campaign)' which was begun by the party on June 7.
Besides Delhi, party president Nitin Gadkari will steer the agitation in Nagpur and M Venkaiah Naidu in Mumbai, Gopinath Munde in Maharashtra, Sushma Swaraj in Bhopal, Narendra Singh Tomar in Madhya Pradesh.
The BJP has charged that while Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is leading a "corrupt" government, Congress President Sonia Gandhi is protecting the corrupt.
"They both are encouraging corruption under the garb of honesty, in the eight years of the UPA government, scams and corruption has broken all records," party leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said.
BJP alleged that despite record production of crops in the last eight years, prices of essential commodities have been constantly on the rise.
"The import of crude oil is about 85 per cent of the present (consumption). However, during the NDA regime, it was 65 to 70 per cent because we focused on alternate sources like piped gas, bio-diesel and ethanol," Naqvi added.
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