New Delhi: Interim President of Congress Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday termed the decision related to the continuous increase in the prices of petrol and diesel as 'insensitive' and requested PM Narendra Modi on Tuesday not to increase the people's distress during the Corona epidemic. Withdraw this increase. In the last 9 days, diesel in India has become expensive by Rs 5.80 and petrol by Rs 5.45.
In a letter written to PM Modi, she also said that the government is trying to raise additional revenue of Rs 2,60,000 crore by raising the price of petrol and diesel, but when PM hopes to make the people of the country self-reliant then it is not fair to put the financial burden on the people. Sonia has said that "India has faced health, economic and social challenges during the fight against the current Corona epidemic. I am sad that in such a difficult time, the government took an insensitive decision to increase the prices of petrol and diesel.''
There is no justification for this decision of the government at a time when crores of people of the country have lost their jobs, livelihood crisis has been in front of them, small, medium and big businesses are being shut down and farmers to are facing problems. Sonia Gandhi further said, "I request you to withdraw the increase and the benefit of the lower price of crude oil should be given directly to the citizens of the country."
Congress's Sonia Gandhi writes to the PM over hike in petrol-diesel prices. The letter states,"It's duty& responsibility of govt to alleviate suffering, not put the people to still greater hardship...Govt doing nothing short of profiteering off its people when they are down&out". pic.twitter.com/yMcH72gREl
— ANI (@ANI) June 16, 2020
