Food inflation played an important role in the results of the Lok Sabha elections

07-Jun-2024 04:27 PM

New Delhi. Food inflation also partially affected the results of the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections. The BJP, which was confident of getting more than 370 seats and the NDA more than 400 seats, was reduced to 240 and 293 seats respectively.

In fact, the entire focus of the BJP was on Ram Mandir, Muslim reservation, Hindu Muslims, Pakistan, criticism of opposition parties and digging up old old issues, while the opposition parties kept making the common people aware of the government's failure on the issues of poverty, unemployment and inflation, which were directly related to the interests of the general class.

It is true that the Central Government made continuous and timely efforts to control food inflation, but it did not bring any significant positive result.

The prices of everyday food products like rice, pulses, flour, sugar, oil and milk remained at a very high level and the prices of fruits and vegetables also increased tremendously.

The government provided rice and wheat to the poor for free, but the very high prices of pulses, oil, sugar, salt and other food products made life difficult for the common people.

As a result, people started turning away from the BJP and gave it less support in the Lok Sabha elections. Food inflation is still at a very high level.