by sportswire4u.blogspot.com
CHANDIGARH, MARCH 1
Terming the hike of Rs 1.40 in the petrol price as a totally irrational
and anti-people decision of the Congress led UPA government at the centre, Punjab
Chief Minister Mr Parkash Singh Badal today said that sole motive of this hike
was to give undue benefit to the big oil companies.
Reacting sharply on the price hike, the Chief Minister said that the price hike was a clear attempt on the part of the UPA
government to extend largeese to the big oil companies that
too at the cost of the common man. Mr Badal said that this move was reflective
of centre’s doublespeak policy as on one hand it was claiming that the recent
budget would arrest the inflationary trends but to everyone’s utter surprise
just within 24 hours of its presentation the Congress led UPA government has
clandestinely hiked the petrol price by Rs 1.40. He said that this hike in the
prices of Petrol has exposed the anti people face of the Congress party.
Lashing out
at the UPA government, the Chief Minister said that though the Centre
was duty bound to check the prices of essential commodities but it has
miserably failed on this count. Mr Badal categorically said the common man was
suffering terribly due to the illogical policies of the UPA government coupled
with uncontrollable prices further making it extremely difficult especially for
the middle and lower middle class to make their both ends meet. He ridiculed
the Centre for pursuing the interest of pro-rich and multinational companies at the cost of poor and disadvantaged
sections of the society.
The Chief Minister bemoaned that the increase in petrol price
would further break the back bone of the common man and it would be very
difficult for him to survive now. He said hike would add to the burden
of the common man which was
already reeling under the high rate of inflation.
Mr Badal also lamented that actually the Congress party was just waiting for
the completion of election process in a few states for increasing the prices of petrol adding
that once the elections results have been declared the UPA government wasted
no time in hiking the prices of petrol.
Mr Badal called upon the
centre that it would have been better if it had consulted the Chief Minister’s
of all the states before hiking the price of petrol. Without mincing any word
the Chief Minister pointed out that since the UPA government was hand in glove
with the MNC and big oil companies therefore it had never consulted the states
earlier and taken these decisions on its own to pursue their agenda.
However, the Chief Minister
reminded the UPA government that its days were numbered and the people had
already made up their mind to show it door during the forthcoming Lok Sabha
elections in 2014. He said that it was writing on the wall that the people
of country would not tolerate such irrational decisions taken by the Centre
unilaterally at the behest of Oil
Companies anymore. Mr Badal said that such anti poor and
anti-people stance of UPA would further speed up the process of decimation of
congress from national scene.
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