Chief minister Ashok Gehlot worried over rising inflation

JAIPUR: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday blamed ill-planned policies of the Union government behind inflation in the country.
He said the Centre had failed to take measures to control price rise, which had made it difficult for people to run their houses.
He said the retail inflation rate had jumped from 4.23% in April to 6.30% in May, while wholesale inflation rate has touched 12.94%. “It shows that how the price of essential items is fast increasing,” said Gehlot.
Quoting Kotak Institutional Securities data released in June, he said prices of soaps had shot up from 8% to 20%, washing powder price jumped from 3% to 10%, eligible oil jumped 20% to 40%, tea from 4% to 8% and baby food from 3% to 7%. The mustard oil price has increased by Rs 180-190,” said Gehlot.
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CM Ashok Gehlot has said that country wanted to know that when airforce was requiring 126 Rafale jets why 36 were purchased in a tweet on Sunday. He said that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the entire opposition have been questioning the deal that how the fighter jet priced at Rs 526 crores has jumped to Rs 1600 crores. He also questioned that Joint Parliamentary Committee has been constituted on demand from the opposition, why JPC is not being formed to investigate Rafale jet deal.