No LPG cylinder shortage in Bihar, queues outside agencies result of Congress ‘propaganda’: Minister

Bihar Industries Minister Dilip Jaiswal on Thursday (March 19, 2026) said there is no shortage of LPG cylinders in the state and queues outside distribution points are a result of “misleading propaganda by the Congress”.

Speaking to reporters in Patna, Mr. Jaiswal said that claims of shortage of LPG cylinders in the state were misleading. “This is an artifact of Congress’ misleading propaganda aimed at spreading fear in the minds of the people,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Congress staged a protest over the shortage of cooking gas in the state.

Speaking to reporters here, Congress State chief Rajesh Ram said: “The Union government has completely failed to provide gas cylinders to people across the country. People have to wait in queues for hours for LPG cylinders. As the availability of cooking gas decreases, they are left with no option.”

“When Narendra Modi nominated the Prime Minister Ujjwala Yojana in 2016, he said he could not bear to see smoke affecting women’s eyes. Today, he fails to persuade. [U.S. President] The Congress leader said that Donald Trump and the Iranian regime’s wrong LPG management to solve the crisis broke the people’s back.

Mr. Ram claimed that people, especially the elderly, died while queuing for hours to buy LPG cylinders in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh.

“Yet the government repeatedly says there is no crisis. So let the government explain why people have to wait in queues,” he said.

Another senior Congress leader Madan Mohan Jha said there was “desperation” among people as they could not afford LPG cylinders. “If the government claims that there is no problem, what explains the long queues in front of LPG distribution agencies? People are willing to pay five times the actual price of cylinders,” he added.