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Former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan connected Friday (May 15, 2026) termed the cardinal government-initiated hike successful substance prices arsenic a “treachery of nationalist welfare”.
In a connection here, the CPI(M) Polit Bureau subordinate said that by importantly raising petrol and diesel prices, the Centre had further injured radical already reeling nether a cost-of-living crisis.
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He said the precocious terms of diesel would summation freight charges, which would, consequently, jack up the prices of indispensable commodities. Commuters would person to ammunition retired much for regular question and deller ostentation mightiness spiral retired of control, helium added.
Mr, Vijayan said the Centre had utilized the emergence of crude lipid prices owing to the situation successful West Asia to fleece mean people, who would consciousness the wound of the substance terms hike acutely. In contrast, the Centre had failed to walk connected the benefits of a decennary of debased crude prices to the people.
His connection highlighted that the “flawed” hike successful cooking state prices had dealt a superior stroke to the economy, upending household budgets and crippling the edifice and edifice industry.
Mr. Vijayan further said the Centre, alternatively of cushioning the fallout from rising crude lipid prices, had coerced the communal moving people radical into picking up the tab.
He said unskilled workers, office-goers, lower-income families, workplace workers and labourers would consciousness the symptom of the substance terms hike acutely, portion the governing people appeared slightest concerned.
