Fuel Prices are Determined by Global Prices, Not Government: Hardeep Singh Puri
GG News Bureau
New Delhi, 8th March. Amid the ongoing speculations that fuel prices may rise due to soaring crude prices due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday ruled out that the government had controlled fuel prices due to polls and said the decision will be taken in the best interest of the citizens.
Addressing a press conference, Hardeep Singh Puri said, “Oil prices are determined by global prices. There is a war-like situation in one part of the country. The oil companies will factor that in. We will take decisions in the best interest of our citizens.”
To say that the government had controlled oil prices due to elections is not correct. We will make sure that our energy requirements are met,” Puri added.
Earlier on Saturday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took a jibe at the Modi government over rising oil prices and advised people to fill up their fuel tanks.
“Get your petrol tanks full immediately. Modi government’s ‘election’ offer is going to end,” Rahul said in a tweet.
On Rahul Gandhi’s suggestion to people to get their tanks filled with petrol, the Union Petroleum Minister said, “One is our youth leader, he says get your tank filled soon. The elections are over. The question was asked that the tanks should be filled because the price of oil is going to increase. Get the tank filled now or get it filled later, sometime or the other election will come.”
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