Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has condemned the hike in price of petrol saying the Centre’s argument that the price of crude oil in the international market has gone up is unacceptable.
In a statement here, she said though it was the wish of everyone that the Centre should not increase petrol price when there had been no increase in the crude oil price in the international market, the government went ahead with a hike on June 23.
“Now the government has decided to increase petrol price by 70 paise, citing increase in the crude oil price and fall in the value of the rupee.
“When the prices of essential items are skyrocketing, inflation is increasing and the rupee’s value is falling, the government has increased the petrol price instead of taking step to arrest the negative trend,” Ms. Jayalalithaa said.
The hike will add to the burden of the poor and the middle class, she added.
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If you want to tackle the real problem, reduce dependency on oil. Provide better public transport and encourage people to use it. Encourage car pooling by giving incentives at the corporate level. Give big tax breaks to electric car manufacturers and users. This problem won't go away by making noise every time oil prices go up.
@Rajan You must first understand that milk prices and bus fare hike has not been increased for many years and the said departments are finding it difficult to run their prices.Also you must understand that milk prices and bus fare prices are not increasing very often.
But petrol prices are being raised quite very often.
So the center should reduce the price of the petrol.
So what Amma Jayalalitha says is correct.
Petrol price has been decontrolled since june last year.It is not in the the hands of central government now.You are the CM of Tamilnadu so should be well aware about the changes..Instead of blaming central government for everything,you should reduce taxes on petrol in your state.
This is the standard statement by every politician irrespective of party affiliations. One must learn to criticize herself/himself before finding fault with others. When will our people work as a well knit team of democracy. Common man is confused by this mockery.
Amma Jaya, first you roll back the bus fare and milk price. These increases are more direct hit on common people. First you keep your house in order, before pointing out the center. The percentage of increase of prices by central govt is negligible as compared with the increase in prices by your government.
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