Fuel price hike: FM ‘invokes’ Nehru
NEW DELHI: Under attack from the opposition over increase in fuel prices, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman ‘invoked’ the country’s first prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru to justify the hikes.
Sitharaman read Nehru’s speech from the 1950s in Hindi, where the former prime minister had blamed the Korean War for inflation in the country. She argued that if Nehru could blame war in Korea for the rise in prices in the 1950s, when India was not as well connected with the world as now, why would the Russia-Ukraine war not impact prices today.
