Burden on people due to fuel prices to be minimum: PM to CWC
With government under mounting pressure to hike petroleum prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight assured the Congress Working Committee that all steps would be taken to ensure that the burden on people with regard to fuel prices was minimum
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: With government under mounting pressure to hike petroleum prices, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh tonight assured the Congress Working Committee that all steps would be taken to ensure that the burden on people with regard to fuel prices was minimum.
Singh's remarks followed several members expressing concern over rising prices and emphasising the need to keep their interest of the common man uppermost while deciding on the hike in prices of petroleum products.
Sources said HRD Minister Arjun Singh told the meeting that inflation cannot be wished away.
AICC Media Department chairperson M Veerappa Moily said the Prime Minister explained the situation caused by volatality in global crude prices.
AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi said the UPA would take a collective decision on the hike in prices of petroleum products and dimissed suggestions that the allies were not being consulted.
Asked whether a decision on the hike would take a week in view of the consultation exercise, he said it was for the government to decide.
The nearly four-hour meeting of CWC mainly focussed on the situation caused by the party's recent electoral reverses especially Karnataka.
Singh's remarks followed several members expressing concern over rising prices and emphasising the need to keep their interest of the common man uppermost while deciding on the hike in prices of petroleum products.
Sources said HRD Minister Arjun Singh told the meeting that inflation cannot be wished away.
AICC Media Department chairperson M Veerappa Moily said the Prime Minister explained the situation caused by volatality in global crude prices.
AICC General Secretary Janardan Dwivedi said the UPA would take a collective decision on the hike in prices of petroleum products and dimissed suggestions that the allies were not being consulted.
Asked whether a decision on the hike would take a week in view of the consultation exercise, he said it was for the government to decide.
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The nearly four-hour meeting of CWC mainly focussed on the situation caused by the party's recent electoral reverses especially Karnataka.
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