Aizawl (mizonews.net): The Mizo National Youth Front (MNYF) yesterday distributed charcoal, which they called ‘Hawla Gas’, to the public here at the Millennium Centre to register their protest against cooking gas shortage in the state.

Mizoram is facing severe shortage of cooking gas for the past two months and the Congress government led by Chief Minister is facing all kinds of criticism from the public and the opposition parties are taking the up the issue to prove the “failures” of the his regime “on all fronts”.

The MNYF activists humousously named the charcoal as ‘Hawla Gas’ at the cost of the chief minister who is often called ‘Pu Hawla’.

The main opposition youth wing said the cooking gas crisis have increased each day since the Congress party came to power in the state.

“The (cooking) gas crisis comes along whenever the Congress comes to power in Mizoram,” they said in a statement.

They accused the chief minister and Supply Minister H.Rohluna for making “many lame excuses” saying the “the real reason was because of their inaction towards this problems.”

“Congress government should wake up and begin distribution of  free ‘Hawla Gas’,” they said.

Meanwhile, refuting  the allegation made by the MNYF,  the Mizoram Pradesh Youth Congress Committee said that the MNF must have “forgotten what happened during MNF government”.

Slamming the ‘Hawla Gas’ distribution by MNYF, the party said during the MNF rule “people were making lines near gas agencies under rains and the sun and sometimes all through the night.”

The Congress statement also said Rohluna will soon visit New Delhi to take up the issue with the Central government.

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