By NNN-PTI,
New Delhi : BJP demanded urgent cut in the prices of petrol and diesel following the lowering of the international crude oil prices.
“Our party demands a cut in the prices of petrol and deisal by five Rupee and three rupee respectively. While the government is prompt in increasing the prices burdening the common man, it seems less interested in passing the profit of lowered crude oil prices to public,” party spokesperson Prakash Javadekar told reporters here on Saturday.
There seems a motive, which is aimed at allowing the oil companies to make profit while the public suffer, he added.
Replying to Petroleum Minister Murli Deora’s statement that oil companies were making up for their losses, he said, “the government is trying to fool everyone by terming under recovery of profit as losses.”
“It is high time that the government come to the rescue of the public and help them from the price-rise. While the government and its ministers speak and work justifying the profit making of the oil companies, it seems least bothered about the losses of the public,” he added.