Haryana Pradesh Beopar Mandal’s state president Bajrang Dass Garg alleged that wrong policies of the BJP government in Haryana adversely affecting trade and industry businesses, due to which the trade and industries were lagging and unemployment rising in the state. Interacting with the media on Tuesday, Garg said, in the last decade the BJP government in Haryana put a financial burden on people by imposing new taxes, which has led to high inflation across the state. The government has also imposed market fees on vegetables and fruits. Earlier, tax was never imposed on clothes, sugar, milk, curd and lassi, but now the government has slapped 5 per cent GST on these items as well. Garg said the prices of petrol and diesel had also skyrocketed due to the imposition of VAT, excise duty and other taxes. People are also paying a high price for LPG cylinders, he said.

Garg said Haryana has become a hub of crime due to unemployment, where criminals are firing on traders in broad daylight and demanding extortion and monthlies and the government is unable to control rising crimes and ransom demands by anti-social elements forcing them to shift their business to other states. He said, a government that cannot protect its people should not have any right to levy taxes. Garg said that in protest of demands the traders organizations are going to have a state level traders conference at Panipat on 11th August. He also invited local traders for a state-level conference scheduled to be held in Panipat on August 11 to consider their problems in which the former Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda and state congress president Uday Bhan would be the chief guests on the occasion.