Goel raises issue of MRP in Rajya Sabha
Display Minimum, and not Maximum price on products – Goel

New Delhi, August 6, 2019: Sharing his views on the Consumer Protection Bill, 2019 introduced in the Rajya Sabha today, MP and senior BJP leader Vijay Goel said that the bill is unexpectedly silent on the Maximum Retail Price (MRP), while the MRP is increasingly becoming the centre of the biggest loot in the market. He said it would hold consumers in good stead if instead of maximum, the minimum price is displayed on products as items are priced 3-4 times higher than they should have been.
 
Commenting on the "Jago Grahak Jago" campaign, Goel said that while one commercial asks customers not to pay beyond the MRP, another commercial asks customers to bargain on the MRP. Goel thanked Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution Ramvilas Paswan for bringing a new bill after over three decades in order to provide convenience and more rights to the consumers.
 
Sharing his suggestions on the Bill, Goel said that while the new laws in the consumers’ interests are welcomed, the government should equally focus on moral education and consumer awareness. The government spends Rs 62 crore every year on awareness, but it manages to reach out to mere 2-3% of the people. The bill proposes to set up three agencies – Central Consumer Protection Authority, Central Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission, and Central Consumer Protection Council. Since the names of Authority and the Council appear similar, keeping in the view of the nature of Council's work, Goel suggested naming the Central Consumer Protection Council as Consumer Advisory council so that aggrieved customers do not face any confusion while registering their complaints.
 
Referring to the report of Boston Consulting Group, Goel said that India has become the largest consumer market in the world and it is set to become bigger in the future. It thus becomes imperative on the part of the government to work on consumer awareness and disposal of their grievances. Every year 1.5 lakh customers register their complaints in various consumer forums in India, and this number is bound to increase in the time to come. About 5 lakh complaints are already pending in various consumer forums.

Public money being transferred from one pocket to another – Goel
Kejriwal first hikes fixed charge, later reduce it to take credit, says Goel
 
 
New Delhi, August 2, 2019: Launching a scathing attack on CM Kejriwal on the announcement of free electricity up to 200 units, Rajya Sabha MP and former BJP Delhi President Vijay Goel said that the Chief Minister of Delhi should stop fooling the public because the funds for these bills would come from the public itself, which would now be used to provide the additional subsidy to the discoms. Kejriwal government is simply putting the public money from one pocket to another.
 
Goel said that he would carry out Padyatras in the JJ colonies to ask people not to get misled by Kejriwal’s false promises of free electricity and free travel for women. Had Kejriwal been really concerned about the rising electricity bills of the public, he would not have hiked the fixed charges at the first place. The Delhi government first increased the fixed charges to up to six times and now when the elections are just a few months away, it has reduced them to score brownie points.
 
Goel said that Kejriwal had not learned anything from his past mistakes. He feels that he could win the election again with his false promises, while the truth remains that barring Delhi polls, he has not won a single election in the past five years. He fought polls in Punjab, Goa, MCD, Lok Sabha 2019 and lost each of them.
 
Goel said that it is a matter of shame that the person who came to power on the plank of anti-corruption and against vote-bank politics, is today adopting every immoral poll tactics in his lust for power. Nobody is happy with the announcement of free electricity bills in Delhi because people have now seen the true face of Kejriwal.
 

Only Modi can give us relief from dowry, say Muslim women
Muslims would never forgive Congress & AAP for stalling the bill – Goel 

New Delhi, July 31, 2019: Hundreds of Muslim women gathered today at the residence of Rajya Sabha MP and former BJP Delhi President Vijay Goel to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi on getting the Triple Talaq bill passed in the parliament. Union Minister Prakash Javdekar was also present along with Goel at his residence while the women celebrated and exchanged the sweets on getting rid of the triple talaq curse.
 
Sharing her happiness, a Muslim woman named Shaira said that she profusely thanks PM Modi for upholding the rights of the Muslim women to live freely since many of them earlier used to live in fear of losing their marriage. Another woman named Rizwana said that Muslim husbands would often threaten to say “talaq” over petty issues, but now women don’t fear such threats. Samira said that it is a big victory for Muslim women and expressed her gratitude to the Modi government for making the cruel husbands deprive of the weapon of “talaq”.
 
All women hailed the decision of the Modi government and said banning a triple talaq was a progressive step in the right direction. The Muslim women requested Goel to make them meet PM Modi so that they can express their gratitude in person to the Prime Minister. They said that after triple talaq, they feel Modi alone can also offer them relief from the menace of dowry.
 
Goel said that that the entire country watched how the Congress and the AAP stalled the passage of the bill in Rajya Sabha, while the Congress had supported in Lok Sabha earlier. The Congress had been betraying the Muslim community for long and hence its tally in Lok Sabha stands at 52 today from 414 in 1984 when it had undermined the Muslims in Shah Bano case. He said the Muslim community would never forgive the Congress for not supporting them on the issue of women empowerment and gender justice.
 
Union Minister Prakash Javdekar said that the Congress deliberately stalled the bill because it was concerned about its vote bank. He said every community faces some or another social malpractice which need to be shunned at the earliest. There are several Islamic countries such as Saudi Arab, UAE, Pakistan, and Bangladesh among others where triple talaq is already banned.