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Badal demands to list diesel as essential commodity

None | ByPTI, Chandigarh
Jun 01, 2014 10:52 PM IST

A day after diesel prices were hiked by 50 paise a litre (excluding state taxes), Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday demanded from the Centre to include diesel in the list of essential commodities to tame inflation.

A day after diesel prices were hiked by 50 paise a litre (excluding state taxes), Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday demanded from the Centre to include diesel in the list of essential commodities to tame inflation.

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"Diesel must be included in the list of essential commodities as it will directly help in reducing inflation across the country," Badal, whose party SAD is a coalition partner in the BJP-led NDA government, said in Bathinda.

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Pitching for cheaper diesel, the SAD patron said that he would take up the issue with the union government soon once the newly-appointed ministers settled down for work.

He said diesel was catalyst for growth in the agriculture and transport sector. "By lowering its prices a huge relief could be given to the countrymen," he said.

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