CM attacks Pranab over prices

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee today accused Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee of doing little to curb rising prices of essential commodities and revive the PDS system.

“I had asked Pranab Mukherjee to take steps to revive the rationing system,but he said so much responsibility cannot be taken,” Bhattacharjee said at an election rally at Haltu in his constituency Jadavpur.

He said that rising prices of essential commodities could have been curbed if items like sugar and onion were sold through the PDS system throughout the country.

“They have allowed money to be siphoned off by people like A Raja (former telecom minister),but have done nothing to revive the ailing rationing system,” he said.