BJP slams central govt over fuel price hike

Bharatiya Janata Party has slammed the government's decision to increase petrol prices by Rs 3.14 per litre from Friday. Addressing mediapersons in Mumbai on Thursday Venkaiah Naidu condemned this decision and criticized the government for increasing financial burden on the common people. He said the central government was clueless on how to control inflation and the brunt of these rising prices was falling on the people of the country. India has been increasing fuel prices in order to ease its fiscal burden, but doing so is sensitive for Congress party, whose voter base is heavily rural and poor. In New Delhi, BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain referred this price hike as a failure of the Manmohan Singh government. Terming it as a big slap on the face of the common man Hussain also stated that the government always had an excuse to increase petrol prices.