Onions used to bring tears in common man's eyes!! Now it’s the turn of tomatoes though it is not an essential vegetable like onion.Common people were not worried about jarring words like inflation, GDP or ABCD! They are interested only in getting essential commodities at reasonable price . It seems the present regime has utterly failed in controlling prices in spite of Central govt. directive for strict action against hoarders and listing onions and potatoes after the Modi govt. controlled onions, now the hoarders have started inflating tomato prices. There is no decrease in production of tomato crop. Other vegetables are freely available and reasonably priced.
In India, prices are not dependent on rains (or the lack of it). The hoarders wait for signals to simply increase prices and make extraordinary profits. When the meteorological department predicted lesser rains, the news channels and papers started playing the same tune again and again -" Now prices will rise, Now prices will rise". The hoarders have fulfilled their wishes and have indeed increased the prices.Tomatoes are selling at Rs.50-60 a kilo in Bangalore which is major hub for procuring and supply of tomatoes .We can still find many vegetable sellers dumping rotten tomatoes on roadsides because people are buying less. So, there is no shortage of tomatoes, its just that it has become a target for hoarders.
This is pure and simple economic terrorism. Economic terrorists are spreading their activities everywhere- real estate, vegetables, retail, education etc. Most of these states which are into tomato and onion and other major vegetable production were UPA Governed states and therefore this could be a deliberate attempt to embarrass the Ruling party.
Check out this satire on the rise of tomato prices here...
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