Jayalalithaa condemns petrol price hike
By IANSMonday, January 17, 2011
CHENNAI - Condemning the hike in petrol prices, AIADMK chief J. Jayalalithaa Monday said the increase is one of the reasons for inflation.
Attacking Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for remaining silent on the oil price increase, Jayalalithaa said: “In the last one month, petrol prices have been increased by Rs.2.55 per litre. The prices have gone up by Rs.15 per litre in the last one year.”
She said users of two-wheelers, auto rickshaws as well as industries will be affected severely.
“If the situation continues, people will have to travel on bullock carts and cycles. The central and the state governments are taking the country back to the stone age,” Jayalalithaa said.
She contended that if only the central government brought back the black money stashed by some Indians in foreign banks, India would then be a prosperous nation and there would be no need for oil price hikes.
Citing reports that the central government has the list of those who have stashed black money in German banks, Jayalalithaa wondered why the list was not being made public.
“The silence of the government on this matter gives rise to the suspicion that persons who have benefited from the 2G spectrum scam are there in the list,” she alleged.
Later speaking at the party headquarters after garlanding the statue of AIADMK founder and former chief minister M.G. Ramachandran, she said DMK is set to lose after the 2011 elections and her party would come back to power.
