Congress faces people's wrath over high prices

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi blamed price rise for the party's debacle in the Assembly elections. Though the Wholesale Price Index-based inflation came down to an average of 5.83 per cent in the first seven months of the financial year, from 7.35 per cent in 2012-13, the rate of price rise in food increased to 13.23 per cent from 9.91 per cent over the period. Food inflation remained in the double digits, or close to it, every year of the United Progressive Alliance rule, except in 2011-12