merisarkar news service New Delhi, November 06, 2011
No need to blame govt.: Pawar
Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday backed the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on deregulation of fuel prices.
"There is no point in blaming the govt for increase in the domestic prices (of fuel) as they are related to fluctuations in the international markets," Pawar said defending Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on deregulation of the fuel prices.
On Trinamool Congress' threat to withdraw from the UPA government, Pawar said, "Our stand is to remain with the government."
Asked to comment on the Prime Minister's remarks on deregulation, Pawar said Singh was an economist of international repute and he (Pawar) was not a "super economist" to comment on what the Prime Minister had said.
The Union minister was speaking at a press conference after inaugurating a bio-gas project.
The Prime Minister has justified the hike in petrol prices, saying there should be further movement towards deregulation of fuel prices.
"Well that is the general direction in which we should move. I think the move to decontrol the prices is a part of that process," Singh had said.
