PMO’s remark on price rise ‘very insulting’: CPM

Raising the issue during Zero Hour, he said the statement was a ‘very insulting remark’. “We want the Prime Minister’s Office and the Government to eschew all temptations of being irresponsible towards the plight of the people, and the plight of the people today requires immediate and prompt intervention to curtail price rise,” he said.

Yechury said rather than giving the response of the Government to the points raised by the Left parties, which support the UPA from outside, “this sort of a charge that the political parties are exploiting the misery of the people does not augur well for the Government”.

The Government ought to have been in the lead to take up the issue of price rise, he said adding that if it did not act on suggestions given by the Left, it should accept the fact that Government has failed to control the price rise.

After meeting Left leaders on the price rise issue on Friday, the Prime Minister had urged all political parties to eschew the temptation of politicising the misery of the people and warned against creating an environment of scarcity which would encourage speculators and hoarders.