New Delhi, June 9 -- Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that subsidised cylinders under the Ujjwala scheme have been reduced from nine to four, adding that the price of domestic LPG cylinders has been increased by Rs 89 in the last 3 months.

Rahul Gandhi further said that the 5 kg cylinder has also been made Rs 323 more expensive and attacked the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government for the "dire situation", saying that the government has forced poor families towards "poisonous smoke of firewood stoves."

"Twelve years of anti-poor economic policies and a compromised foreign policy have today pushed the country into such a dire situation where millions of poor families and women have been forced towards...