General price hike 'failure' of economist PM: BJP

Monday, 17 January 2011, 15:11 IST   |    3 Comments
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New Delhi: BJP today described spiralling prices in general as "failure of the economist Prime Minister" and the food and petrol price hike as a "Congress conspiracy" against common man, demanding action in both the areas. "When the world is witnessing a stable price regime and food prices are actually going down in most parts, India is experiencing a turbulent price regime because of lack of cohesive policy on part of the UPA," BJP spokesperson Prakash Javadekar said. He said that the double dose of price hike in one month is "totally unjustified" and is nothing but "loot" of the common man by the government. Attacking the government, he said that when people were reeling under general price hike of 10 per cent in WPI, the government should have taken remedial measures, but, instead it hiked petrol prices twice.
Source: PTI