Finance Minister P Chidambaram could be a worried man as pressure is building against the UPA government on the issue of price rise ahead of the budget session of the Parliament amid strong demands for urgent measures to check spiralling inflation.Sharad Pawar-led NCP is the latest one to ask the Congress-led coalition to get its act together on the issue of price rise."Price rise is the real problem for our government. We should try to contain inflation and control spiralling prices," NCP spokesman D P Tripathi said.RJD leader and Rural Development Minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, whose party is the second largest constituent of the UPA, has already described the price situation as "worrisome".In fact leaders in the Congress, which is heading the coalition, are also concerned over the price graph going up unhindered despite measures by the Manmohan Singh government.Congress Parliamentary Party sources said that a meeting of the CPP Executive is being held ahead of the budget in which the Finance Minister would be asked to be present amid indications that the party would make a plain breast of its concerns on the economic front at the meet.Ruling party circles are worried about the price line and its political fallout. Party chief Sonia Gandhi had asked the government to check the prices some eight months ago and followed it up with a meeting of the party working committee as also party Chief Ministers' meeting here on the issue.
