New Delhi: While petrol and diesel prices continue to rise and there is a hole in the pocket of the common man, an Uttar Pradesh minister has come up with an absurd excuse for the hike in fuel prices. Rejecting criticism over rising fuel prices, Uttar Pradesh minister Upendra Tiwari on Thursday said that 95 per cent people have no access to petrol.
Tewari also argued that fuel prices had not actually risen in real terms when the per capita income is now compared to 2014, referring to the year when the BJP-led government at the Center came to power for the first time. she came.
Today there are few people who travel in four wheelers and use petrol. Tiwari told reporters in Jalaun that at present 95 per cent people do not need petrol. The high fuel cost, however, affects almost every citizen. For example, they lead to an increase in the prices of all commodities – including food grains, fruits and vegetables – that are moved from one part of the country to another, PTI was quoted as saying.
This statement of the UP minister comes at a time when petrol prices have crossed Rs 100 in most of the states and deals have reached close to Rs 100 per litre. He claimed that the opposition has no real issue to attack the government.
You look at the figures before 2014. What is the per capita income after the formation of Modi and Yogi government? Referring to the BJP-led governments at the Center and in Uttar Pradesh, he said. Today the per capita income has doubled.
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