07-06-2006, 01:49 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NDA has caused price rise! </b>
Yogesh Vajpeyi | New Delhi
Pioneer.com
Cong says it all started in 2002, * BJP retorts, why not blame the British? ---- Congress president<b> Sonia Gandhi's meeting with Chief Ministers </b>of the party-ruled States on Wednesday turned into yet another exercise in futility as it sought <b>to blame a four-year-old NDA Government order for the current price rise instead of coming out with a concrete plan of action</b>.
"The Chief Ministers said that the NDA Government order of February 15, 2002 rescinding all control orders under the Essential Commodities Act was making it difficult for them to act against hoarders," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told media persons after the two-hour meeting.
The meeting also wanted forward trading in food grains and some other essential commodities to be "better regulated" in order to curb "excessive speculation".
The BJP expectedly dismissed the Congress charges.<b> "In 2002, the country was not faced with a food grains shortage. After mismanaging the economy, the Congress is now blaming the NDA. They should have gone even further back to the British rule for the problem," </b>was party spokesman Prakash Javadekar's caustic comment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Yogesh Vajpeyi | New Delhi
Pioneer.com
Cong says it all started in 2002, * BJP retorts, why not blame the British? ---- Congress president<b> Sonia Gandhi's meeting with Chief Ministers </b>of the party-ruled States on Wednesday turned into yet another exercise in futility as it sought <b>to blame a four-year-old NDA Government order for the current price rise instead of coming out with a concrete plan of action</b>.
"The Chief Ministers said that the NDA Government order of February 15, 2002 rescinding all control orders under the Essential Commodities Act was making it difficult for them to act against hoarders," Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee told media persons after the two-hour meeting.
The meeting also wanted forward trading in food grains and some other essential commodities to be "better regulated" in order to curb "excessive speculation".
The BJP expectedly dismissed the Congress charges.<b> "In 2002, the country was not faced with a food grains shortage. After mismanaging the economy, the Congress is now blaming the NDA. They should have gone even further back to the British rule for the problem," </b>was party spokesman Prakash Javadekar's caustic comment.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:clapping--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/clap.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='clap.gif' /><!--endemo-->