New Delhi, March 11 -- Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader N.K. Premachandran on Wednesday slammed the ruling government over reports of LPG shortages across the country in the wake of the West Asia conflict. He highlighted that major hotels are facing potential closures due to the severe disruption in commercial LPG supplies.

The RSP leader further accused the government of downplaying the crisis, rather than resolving the current situation in the country.

"This is very evident, that almost most of the major hotels are being closed. LPG Supply has been totally disrupted. It is a big problem prevailing in our country, but intead of resolving the issue, finding some alternate ways, government is claiming that there is no shortage,...