UPA government has failed in controlling price rise: Joshi

Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi today hit out at Congress-led UPA government at Centre alleging that it has failed to control price rise during the first hundred days of its rule.      

"The UPA government has totally failed to control the spiralling price rise which has led to the extreme misery of not only common men but also to the middle class of the country," the senior BJP leader alleged.      

Joshi alleged that in many of the cases there has been a hundred per cent rise in the price of commodities.      

"Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had himself claimed to control the economic recession and the price rise but people of the country know that during last three to four months the prices of the cereals, pulses, sugar and other eatables have swelled the most," Joshi told reporters. 

He also said that the UPA government is ignoring the plight of farmers.      

"The farmers of the country are increasingly taking extreme steps of ending their lives but the Central government is mum over the issue and is compromising the interests of the farmers of the country by entering into an agreement with USA and other Western countries in the Doha round," he said.      

To a question on Pakistan's role in upgrading the US weapons, Joshi said that it is a cause of concern for India.

"But the US cannot shed its responsibility of keeping a strict vigil and control over the use of its weapons, supplied to Pakistan," he added.