• Government braces for fight on petro prices

  February 5, 2010 08:52:58

  The battlelines are being drawn on the issue of raising petro-fuel prices. With the Kirit Parikh committee recommending the freeing of petrol and diesel prices and reducing the subsidies on cooking gas and kerosene, the Congress-led UPA has a fight on its hands.One battle is internal. The government and Sonia Gandhi have to quell the sceptics within the UPA and the Congress party, who feel any hike will not go down well with the aam aadmi image. Trinamool Congress' Mamata Banerjee has a...

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