Modi govt’s fuel price hikes crushing people, says Congress

The Congress, on Friday, renewed their attack on the Narendra Modi-led Central government over the surge in fuel prices that have remained unchanged for the second consecutive day, and said that the Centre is “crushing” the people of the country.

“Modi Sarkar’s continuity, consistency and coherence is restricted to achieving phenomenal and extraordinary heights of inflation. The BJP government is grinding and crushing the common man in the millstone of three things — inflation, unemployment and taxation,” Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said.

Citing an unnamed survey, Singhvi alleged that people are more scared of inflation than they are of Covid-19 and the new variant. He added that this is the reality of all “jumlas” the government feeds the people of India. He further claimed that in the last eight years, the Modi government had earned ₹26 lakh crores through the excise duty of diesel and petrol.