New Delhi: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) questions the mysterious silence of the Congress and the BJP on the issue of pricing of the natural gas. It is shocking that the UPA government had tried to push through a completely unjustified decision to double the prices of natural gas and impose huge financial burden on the people when its tenure is all but over.
Equally shocking is the stand of the BJP and its Prime Ministerial candidate on the issue. It is beyond understanding as to why this party which is day-dreaming about forming the next central government is not willing to speak out on whether the UPA government’s decision was correct or not ?
Is it because the BJP wants to hike the prices of natural gas to benefit the Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) even beyond the $ 8.4 per unit which the UPA government desperately wanted to fix ? The BJP stand on the UPA’s bid to double gas prices, which has been rightly deferred by the Election Commission, makes it clear that the BJP was hand in glove with the Congress in its unsuccessful bid to allow huge gains for the RIL at the cost of the common man.
The AAP takes exception to the petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily’s reaction to the EC directive to his ministry to defer its decision of doubling the gas prices from April 1. Mr Moily’s statement that he will consult the top law officers of the government on the EC decision is nother attempt to mislead the nation.
When the matter is already pending before the Supreme Court and the EC has referred to it, what is the logic in Mr Moily trying to seek a legal opinion ? It appears that the petroleum minister is once again merely trying to please the RIL through his statements.
Mr Moily needs to be reminded that though his tenure as a union minister is coming to an end, he had been sworn in as a minister to uphold the Constitution and not corporate interests.
The AAP promises the people that it will continue its struggle to oppose any hike in the gas prices and in the coming days the party will further expose the nexus between the RIL and the Congress-BJP combine.
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