Fuel pricing reforms will go ahead full throttle notwithstanding opposition from the BJP-led NDA and the UPA partners. After petrol, retail prices of kerosene will be deregulated to trim the deficit and restore fiscal balance. Cooking gas and kerosene will continue to be subsidised.
“Petrol prices have been set free, the same is going to be done to diesel prices,” Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, asserted.
Briefing reporters aboard Air India One on the way to Frankfurt after participating in the G-20 summit in Toronto, Dr Singh said, “We have taken due care to ensure that the poorer sections are affected the least possible and (will) keep under regulation the prices of kerosene and LPG.”
Last Friday, the UPA government deregulated and increased petrol prices by Rs 3.50 per litre. Simultaneously, diesel and kerosene was made dearer by Rs 2 and Rs 3 per litre respectively and the cooking gas subsidy was reduced by Rs 35 per cylinder.
The NDA, and UPA allies like the Trinamul Congress and DMK, have opposed the increase.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
UPA vows to root out extremism
Countering Left-wing extremism remains high on the agenda of the UPA-II government with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, outlining the Centre’s anti-Naxal policy on Tuesday.
Releasing a report prepared by the UPA-II government on the completion of one year, the Prime Minister said his government has adopted an integrated approach in dealing with Left-wing extremism in the area of “security, development and public perception”. He said the Centre will pursue a policy that genuinely addresses developmental concerns while enforcing the writ of the state. “We will fight against the scourge of communalism and political extremism. We will fight terrorism root and branch. We will ensure that this great, liberal and plural nation of ours is not weakened by hatred and bigotry,” Dr Singh said.
Releasing a report prepared by the UPA-II government on the completion of one year, the Prime Minister said his government has adopted an integrated approach in dealing with Left-wing extremism in the area of “security, development and public perception”. He said the Centre will pursue a policy that genuinely addresses developmental concerns while enforcing the writ of the state. “We will fight against the scourge of communalism and political extremism. We will fight terrorism root and branch. We will ensure that this great, liberal and plural nation of ours is not weakened by hatred and bigotry,” Dr Singh said.
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
BJP pulls out of Soren govt. in Jharkhand
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s four-month honeymoon with Shibu Soren ended abruptly today with the party withdrawing support to the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha-led government, a day after the Jharkhand Chief Minister sided with the UPA in the Lok Sabha.
A meeting of the BJP top brass, headed by party chief Nitin Gadkari, decided to withdraw support immediately giving indications that the new experiment in Ranchi has floundered.
“The BJP Parliamentary Board has decided to withdraw support immediately to the Shibu Soren government. He (Soren) has behaved in a very dubious manner and voted with the government during the cut motion. BJP has taken very serious note of this betrayal and dubious conduct,” senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters here.
New equations in Jharkhand appeared to be in the offing with AICC in—charge of the state K. Keshav Rao saying, “There is nobody untouchable in politics....(We were) never averse to it (forming a government with JMM). After all we contested the election there to form a government. In politics there is no last word.”
BJP leader and Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das will submit a letter to the state governor withdrawing support to the JMM-led government later in the day.
“The Deputy Chief Minister and all BJP ministers in the Jharkhand government will also submit their resignations to the governor,” Mr. Kumar said.
Mr. Kumar, who along with former party president Rajnath Singh was part of the negotiations with Soren just four months ago to form a government, refused to comment on whether BJP’s coalition experiment has failed in the state.
With elections to the state legislature throwing up a hung assembly, BJP had formed a coalition government with Soren.
In the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly, BJP and JMM have 18 seats each, Congress 14, RJD 5, JVM 11, ASJU 5, JD(U) 2, CPI(ML) 1 and others and independents six. One member is nominated
A meeting of the BJP top brass, headed by party chief Nitin Gadkari, decided to withdraw support immediately giving indications that the new experiment in Ranchi has floundered.
“The BJP Parliamentary Board has decided to withdraw support immediately to the Shibu Soren government. He (Soren) has behaved in a very dubious manner and voted with the government during the cut motion. BJP has taken very serious note of this betrayal and dubious conduct,” senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar told reporters here.
New equations in Jharkhand appeared to be in the offing with AICC in—charge of the state K. Keshav Rao saying, “There is nobody untouchable in politics....(We were) never averse to it (forming a government with JMM). After all we contested the election there to form a government. In politics there is no last word.”
BJP leader and Jharkhand Deputy Chief Minister Raghubar Das will submit a letter to the state governor withdrawing support to the JMM-led government later in the day.
“The Deputy Chief Minister and all BJP ministers in the Jharkhand government will also submit their resignations to the governor,” Mr. Kumar said.
Mr. Kumar, who along with former party president Rajnath Singh was part of the negotiations with Soren just four months ago to form a government, refused to comment on whether BJP’s coalition experiment has failed in the state.
With elections to the state legislature throwing up a hung assembly, BJP had formed a coalition government with Soren.
In the 81-member Jharkhand Assembly, BJP and JMM have 18 seats each, Congress 14, RJD 5, JVM 11, ASJU 5, JD(U) 2, CPI(ML) 1 and others and independents six. One member is nominated
