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'You have increased prices immensely': Six-year-old girl writes to PM Modi

In the letter that has gone viral on social media, Kirti Dubey wrote that she had gone to a shop to buy Maggi but was sent back by the shopkeeper

Chennai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during the foundation stone laying and dedication to the nation of multi-crore infrastructure projects, at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (PTI Photo
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BS Web Team New Delhi
Kirti Dubey, a class 1 student from Uttar Pradesh's Kannauj, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding the price rise. "You have increased prices immensely," Dubey wrote in the letter in Hindi. The six-year-old girl's letter has gone viral on social media.

"My name is Kirti Dubey, I study in Class 1. You have increased prices immensely. Even my pencil and rubber (eraser) have become costly, the price of Maggi has also increased. When I ask for a pencil, my mother beats me. What shall I do? Other students steal my pencil," the note read.

Dubey's father, Vishal Dubey, had