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Far from doing anything to help the common man, the United Progressive Alliance was committing “economic barbarity” on him, the Bharatiya Janata Party said on Friday.
Commenting on the petrol price hike, party spokesperson Shahnawaz Husain said everything was being decided by the so-called “international market,” instead of the government formulating appropriate pricing policy taking into consideration the domestic situation.
Mr. Husain said the UPA allies should put pressure on the government and not allow it to increase the prices of essential products at a time when inflation was running high.
Mr. Husain also cautioned the government against raising the price of cooking gas cylinders.
“Rein in inflation”
Demanding a rollback of the petrol price hike, the BJP said firm and effective steps were needed to control inflation that was eating into the benefits, if any, from the increase in the gross domestic product.
Keywords: oil price hike
This is like one arm of govt increasing inflation through hike in petrol prices (reason being depreciation of dollar this time) and another arm RBI, utilising monetary policy to control inflation (whose success as a inflation control measure is itself debatable). What kind of policy is this? Crude prices came down in between from a record high of $140 per barrel to $78-80, Was the benefit of reduced international prices passed on to common man then? This is hypocrisy of highest order. Under the slogan of 'aam aadmi', everything is being done to make his life miserable while the assets of MPs and ministers are multiplying at unthinkable rates.
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