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The Delhi Congress connected Saturday protested extracurricular filling stations and Mother Dairy outlets against the steep hikes successful substance and beverage prices, criticising the Centre for its “anti-poor and pro-rich” policies. Oil selling companies connected Friday accrued petrol and diesel prices by ₹3 crossed each variants portion CNG prices successful cities specified arsenic Delhi and Mumbai were raised by ₹2 per kg amid unit connected substance supplies owed to the struggle successful West Asia. Amul and Mother Dairy, India’s largest dairy merchandise retailers, had connected Wednesday raised beverage prices by ₹2 per litre. Delhi Congress president Devender Yadav arrived astatine a petrol pump successful Karol Bagh connected a bullock cart and demanded an contiguous rollback of the terms hikes. “Before the BJP came to powerfulness astatine the Centre, it utilized to accidental the Congress authorities did thing successful 60 years. But successful the past 12 years, ostentation has continuously risen due to the fact that of the BJP government’s anti-poor and pro-rich policies,” helium said. Mr. Yadav said the NDA authorities had travel to powerfulness promising to curb inflation, but prices person alternatively continued to soar and are tormenting people. He claimed that the authorities had earned ₹43 lakh crore from petroleum products betwixt 2014 and 2025. “Barring a fewer months successful 2026, the mean planetary crude lipid terms betwixt 2014 and 2025 was $70 per barrel. According to this, the terms of petrol should person been ₹61.60 per litre and diesel ₹56.99 per litre,” helium said. Questioning the timing of the hike, Mr. Yadav said the Central authorities accrued the prices of indispensable commodities soon aft the Assembly elections. “As soon arsenic the elections ended, the BJP-led authorities delivered a terrible daze to communal radical by expanding the prices of petrol, diesel and milk,” helium said.
Published - May 16, 2026 11:34 p.m. IST
