New Delhi, July 02: Even as Parliament witnessed a week-long logjam over price rise, Congress President Sonia Gandhi has justified the hike in fuel prices saying it was “necessary” and has been done for increasing the availability of funds for social sector schemes.
“An increase in prices is never a pleasant thing.
However, this has been done for a number of reasons including increasing the availability of funds for our social sector schemes,” Gandhi said in her message to Congressmen in party mouthpiece ‘Congress Sandesh’.
Gandhi also sought to turn the tables on the NDA which criticised the government on this issue, saying, “While the NDA raised the prices of diesel and petrol 31 and 28 times respectively in their five-year tenure, the UPA kept a close vigil on prices changing it on nine occasions in six years.
–Agencies