Indian PM on national television, Sonia Gandhi may enact letter writing drama
The Indian Prime Minister claimed on national Television that “Our (his) government has taken many steps to increase food production and procurement, limit food exports and strengthen the Public Distribution System. All these steps, along with positive expectations of a normal monsoon, have already had a positive impact on food price inflation. I am confident that in months to come there will be further stabilisation in food prices.”
Keeping up the tradition of blame game he said that inflation is due to “First, rising food and commodity prices around the world and second, rising world oil prices. ”
Then he claimed that “Our economy is largely self-sufficient in food. We produce enough to meet our needs.”
Then he gave a lecture that the government should have followed itself “We need to learn to adjust to this new international scenario. We need to be efficient and economical in our use of energy. And we need to pay the economic cost of petroleum products. There are limits to which we can keep consumer prices unaffected by rising import costs. Our oil companies cannot go on incurring losses. This way, they will have no money to import crude oil from abroad.” Had the government followed their own sermon, the common man would not have paid such a price.
Adding insult to the injury, the PM claimed that ” it has been our endeavour to raise the prices only by a moderate amount.”
The price of petrol has been raised by Rs.5 per litre, of diesel by Rs.3 per litre and of an LPG cylinder by Rs.50. Prices of kerosene, a vital fuel for the poor, remain unchanged. We continue to bear a subsidy of Rs.250 per cylinder of LPG and almost Rs.20 per litre of kerosene. The Prime Minister claimed that “It must be appreciated that what has been done is the bare minimum, with a substantial burden being borne by the government and the oil companies.”
His political boss Sonia Gandhi has been enacting dramas like “inner consciousness” and “letter writing” for political gains. Normally at such times she has a habit of writing letters to the Prime Minister for withdrawing or reducing the prices.
BJP the main opposition party said that “in another act of insensitivity and betrayal, the government has taken a decision that is bound to have a cascading effect on prices. This will further impoverish crores of ordinary Indian families.”
The left parties which have been instrumental to the national mess have decided to go for strikes and the subvert economy.
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