Unscrupulous traders
Every year during the month of Ramadan the prices of essentials like sugar, cooking oil, brinjal, cucumber, mint, cumin leaves, tomato, carrot, rice, chicken, beef, mutton and fish go up. Extortion by traders and business people reach intolerable heights. Even the rates of bribes increase in this holy month! Lives of the common people become very difficult. We wonder whether Ramadan is a month of sacrifice or a month of extortion by greedy traders. We think a consumers' rights movement should be waged to combat these anti-people greedy practices.
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