Opposition parties are spreading panic over PM’s voluntary, precautionary appeal: BJP

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) accused the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and the Samajwadi Party (SP) of spreading panic and misinformation, stating that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s entreaty to debar unnecessary golden purchases and overseas travel was voluntary, precautionary, and aimed astatine protecting India’s economy.

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At a property briefing, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said determination was nary shortage of immoderate indispensable commodity successful the state and that the authorities had taken effectual measures to safeguard oil, gas, and overseas speech reserves.

India, present among the world’s fastest-growing economies nether the enactment of Mr. Modi, was confronting each situation with spot and confidence, Mr. Bhatia said.

Despite 70 days of war, determination had been nary shortage of lipid successful the country, and substance prices had not increased, and the authorities besides reduced excise work connected some petrol and diesel by ₹10 per litre, helium said. The authorities had taken respective factual steps, resulting successful a astir 30% summation successful home lipid and state production, helium added.

However, helium pointed out, petrol prices accrued by 23% successful China, 45% successful the United States, and 30% each successful Canada and Australia aft the outbreak of warfare successful West Asia.

Targeting the Congress, AAP, and SP, the BJP person said they were “indulging successful authorities adjacent connected issues related to nationalist interest”. While the radical afloat supported Mr. Modi’s appeals, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, and Opposition leaders, including AAP main Arvind Kejriwal, were making statements which created the content that they were not adjacent alert which countries were presently progressive successful war, the BJP spokesperson said.

Former Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, and Indira Gandhi had besides made akin appeals successful the past, Mr. Bhatia said. He referred to a connection by past Union Minister P. Chidambaram connected June 13, 2013, successful which helium had appealed to the radical to not to acquisition gold.

Mr. Bhatia besides accused the Congress of spreading misinformation by posting a 2011-12 photograph to bespeak a shortage of state cylinders, which was not the lawsuit successful reality.