Price rise synonymous with Congress,says Nitish

“We are not surprised at the escalating price rise and inflation during the UPA rule….let us not expect prices to fall so long as the Congress-led coalition government is ruling the country,” he said.

The Congress has neither will power nor a policy to deal sternly with the price rise issue,Kumar said and described meetings of the central ministers on the issue as a “public relation exercise”.

He said the NDA government in the state has been trying its best to rein in prices through deterrent measures against hoarders and black marketeers.

The Chief Minister said frequent increase in petroleum prices was an attack on the federal structure of the country.

The state governments found themselves helpless in containing price rise on their own due to repeated increase in prices of petroleum products,he said.