Congress leader Rashid Alvi today criticized the government for increasing the price of diesel and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) used to protest against the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) when fuel prices were hiked during their regime.
"The government is continuously increasing diesel prices, the common man needs diesel. If price of diesel rose during the UPA regime, BJP people were out on the streets protesting. But today the BJP government is continuously increasing diesel price and it will pressurize the common man and the farmers," said Alvi.
Yesterday, the prices of petrol were cut by Rs 1.82 per litre while diesel prices were hiked by 50 paise per litre. The rates of non-subsidized LPG were also reduced by 19 rupees per cylinder.