Nitish disagrees with Pawar;blames UPA policies for price rise

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Monday said he disagreed with Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's suggestion that states should do more to rein in rising prices and blamed UPA government's "faulty policies" for the crisis.

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said he disagreed with Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar's suggestion that states should do more to rein in rising prices and blamed UPA government's "faulty policies" for the crisis.

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"I don't subscribe to Pawar's charge about inability of states to control skyrocketing prices of essential commodities. Whenever the Congress came to power at the Centre, it gifted the nation with uncontrolled price rise," Kumar told reporters here.

Accusing Pawar of making such statements out of sheer frustration following the Centre's "failure" to control rising prices, the Chief Minister claimed that previous NDA government had taken all possible measures to check spiralling prices.

"We are undertaking a drive against hoarding and black marketers are being penalised. We have left no stone unturned to reach food grains to the people despite soaring prices of essential commodities," Kumar said.

"Our efforts will take time and it is my advice that the faulty policies of the Union Ministry responsible for the present mess can be controlled with proper care to food security," Kumar said.