Fuel prices killing common man: Punjab Cong

Mohali, June 11

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) chief Sunil Jakhar today lambasted the Centre over the skyrocketing prices of petrol and diesel, saying these were killing the common man economically.

Speaking on the sidelines of a protest held in Kurali, Jakhar said the Narendra Modi regime had totally abandoned its citizens. “First, many families lost their loved ones due the Centre’s grave Covid mismanagement. And now the continuous hike in fuel prices have left the common man in the lurch,” he said. On the Centre’s vaccine policy, Jakhar said before the second wave, its insensitive decision to export vaccines, arbitrary pricing and abject failure to gauge the domestic requirement and placing the orders in advance cost many lives.

The PPCC chief also alleged the Centre was penalising Punjab by withholding its RDF and GST refund, while it was collecting 3 lakh crore from taxes levied on petrol and diesel every year.

Meanwhile, women workers of the party’s Sunam unit pulled a truck to protest the continuous rise in prices of fuel. — TNS

Things were better under Manmohan

When Manmohan Singh was the PM, the price of crude oil was $125 a barrel and diesel Rs54. Now the rate of crude is almost half than what it was in 2014, the price of diesel is almost double. — Sunil Jakhar, PPCC president