Poll-bound states: Current regimes outdid earlier ones on inflation control

However, most previous regimes had lower inflation than national level; now the situation is opposite

At the outset, it may seem that the Yogi government has managed inflation better than the previous Akhilesh Yadav regime in Uttar Pradesh. This is apparent in the fact that the average annual consumer price index (CPI)-based inflation rate stood at 4.47 per cent during the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, against 6.98 per cent under the Samajwadi Party.

However, if seen in the context of the overall inflationary environment in the country, the SP government seems to have controlled inflation a bit better than the BJP government. Official data showed that average annual inflation at all-India level stood at