Jaitley should apologise for fooling nation about inflation: Sandeep Dikshit

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit on Saturday said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley should apologise to the nation for fooling them about inflation.

"I am surprised that he has suddenly realized this. When it used to happen under the Congress government, he used to give exactly an opposite observation to it. His own people, lots of his party spokespersons used to go on TV channels and severely and bitterly criticize the Congress and almost call us as an ineffective government. Now, they have realized the reality of the government and why inflation comes and does not come," Dikshit told ANI here.

"I think first of all Jaitley should have come out and apologized to the nation for fooling them about inflation and realizing that actually Congress did actually an excellent job of trying to control inflation," he added.

Concerning the food inflation, Jaitley earlier in the day said that this is normally the time when prices of some food items become steep. However, this year a special effort has been made to contain the prices of important food items like that of onions at an early stage.

"We have sufficient food stock so even if because of the monsoon, there is any problem in certain areas, we need not worry," said Jaitley.

The finance minister said containing inflation, restarting growth and investment cycles and keeping fiscal deficit at acceptable level priorities for the government.