As onion prices keep up heat, Amit Shah holds meet to take stock

On a day onion traded at Rs 7,500 per quintal, up from Wednesday’s Rs 5,025 per quintal, at Lasalgaon in Maharashtra’s Nashik district, the country’s largest onion wholesale market, and price of the vegetable in retail market touched Rs 200 per kg in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a meeting with ministers and top officials to discuss and review the situation.

According to sources, Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal and Agriculture and Farmer’s Welfare Minster Narendra Singh Tomar attended the meeting.

While Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan could not attend due to ill-health, top officials from the ministry are learnt to have made a presentation at the meeting.