BJP MLAs -- Ashok Khajuria, Jugal Kishore Sharma, Shyam Choudhary and Sukhnandan Kumar -- did not attend today's meeting convened by minister Qamar Ali Akhoon, calling it a "futile exercise".
"It has become customary with the present NC-Congress coalition government to convene meetings, seek suggestions for improvement in functioning of its departments, claiming to provide a people friendly dispensation. But, in reality, it is only an eye wash," Ashok Khajuria said.
They said that in the past also such meeting was held and despite valuable and result oriented suggestions not even a single of them was practically adopted.
"We do not see any logic of attending the meeting and forwarding suggestions if they are not implemented," MLA Jugal Kishore Sharma said.
The MLAs said the recent decision on bringing down the number of subsidised gas cylinders to six has created problems for the people.
Large queues of helpless consumers are seen outside LPG outlets, while genuine consumers are not getting gas for days together, it is sold in black market for Rs 1200-1500 per cylinder, they alleged.
The MLAs alleged that the department is fully aware of the sale of LPG cylinders in black, but has not taken any effective step to check the same.