Left on price rise: Pranab has become an astrologer

November 22, 2011 16:57

Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's claim that the inflation will come down to 6-7 per cent by March was taken by the Left and the Right parties with
more than a pinch of salt.

CPI leader Gurudas Dasgupta dubbed the Finance Minister as an astrologer, while BJP's Shahnawaz Hussain said the government's claim could not be relied upon as they have often made such "false promises".

"Finance Minister's statement is a piece of paper without any significant and a colossal denial by government to accept its own failure to control the inflation. He has been saying so...," Dasgupta told reporters outside Parliament House.

"He is an astrologer. Pranab babu has become an astrologer. Let him believe in religion but let him not become an astrologer. He is speaking this for the last four years. Always he is saying it will be done...it will be done...it will be done. But never he says this has been done...this has been done...this has been done," the Left MP said.

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