BJP asks PM, FM to quit as inflation rises to 11.05 per cent
With inflation rising to a new high, BJP on Friday blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram for the situation and suggested that they quit.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: With inflation rising to a new high, BJP on Friday blamed Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister P Chidambaram for the situation and suggested that they quit. (Watch)
"BJP, on behalf of the nation, requests the Prime Minister and the Finance Minister to spare the country of their illustrious service," BJP spokesperson Rajiv Pratap Rudy said here.
Noting that inflation has touched a 13-year high of 11.05 per cent, Rudy said "this team of economic managers (comprising Singh and Chidambaram) has broken their own record set during the Narasimha Rao government (between 1991 and 1996).
Accusing Chidambaram of "failure" in managing the economy, the BJP spokesman charged that the Finance Minister's measures have "defied all economic logic".
Taking potshots at the Finance Minister, he said Chidambaram had asserted in one of his budget speeches -- "Main Hoon Na" (I am here to help). "BJP would like to ask where is he now when the nation and particularly the common man is suffering," Rudy said.
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