Cong leaders misleading people on fuel price hike: BSY
Bengaluru, September 10: BJP state president BS Yeddyurappa alleged that as the Lok Sabha election is fast approaching, the Congress leaders have been misleading the people to protect the sinking Congress by telling half truth regarding fuel price hike.
Yeddyurappa told in a press release on Monday that the Bharat bandh was a part that effort. It was not wrong to observe bandh. But the ruling parties should not support the bandh. It was a clear violation of the Supreme Court verdict. The Congress leaders have been misleading the people on fuel price hike issue, he said.
“Normally, the fuel prices are fixed internationally. During the UPA government, the fuel price was relaxed from the government control. But the Congress leaders have been hiding this fact from the people purposefully. Though the fuel price was increased by 73 percent globally in the last 14 months, in India, it was just 29.58 per cent. The one barrel crude oil is costing 79 dollar from 28 dollars. Based on this price, the fuel price will fluctuate in the market. In the international level, the USA has been trying to control over the oil producing countries and imposing restrictions against exporting more oil”, he said.
“The central government is getting Rs 6.66 from one litre of petrol and the state government would get Rs 25. Then how far it is right to passing the buck on the central government? Is it not the duty of the state government to slash the tax? The Congress is hiding all these issues”, Yeddyurappa said.
As the financial condition was sound in the Narendra Modi administration, the prices of essential commodities like pulses and household things were under control. When the Congress government was at the centre, the prices of pulses and food grains were shot up. But the Modi government has announced minimum support price to help the farmers on the one side and protecting the interests of the consumers on the other side. There was no doubt that the fuel prices would come down in the country when the price of the crude oil was stable, he said.
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After poll debacle, defeated MVA candidates to seek verification of EVM-VVPAT units
Mumbai(PTI): The Maha Vikas Aghadi candidates who faced defeat in the recent Maharashtra assembly polls have decided to seek verification of the EVM-Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trails (VVPATs) units in their segments, a leader of the opposition alliance said.
Many losing candidates of the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) pointed fingers at the functioning of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) during their interaction with party head Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday.
Thackeray took stock of the lacklustre performance of his party at a meeting held at his residence in Mumbai.
The poll verdict last week saw the Mahayuti coalition, comprising the Shiv Sena, BJP, and NCP, retaining power with a massive mandate, pushing the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) to margins.
The Mahayuti won 230 seats and MVA only 46 in the 288-member House.
The Thackeray-led Sena (UBT) emerged as the largest party in the opposition camp by winning 20 seats, followed by Congress which bagged 16 constituencies, while the NCP (Sharadchandra Pawar) sits at the bottom with a tally of 10 seats.
Talking to PTI on Tuesday, Congress leader Arif Naseem Khan, who lost the election from Chandivali assembly constituency in Mumbai, said he held a discussion with Thackeray, who also said he has got complaints from his party workers that EVMs could have been tampered.
"We are getting complaints from different parts of the state expressing doubts over the results. In a democracy, complaints need to be verified and many of us, including myself, (who faced defeat) are in the process of applying for the verification," Khan said.
As per the Supreme Court's judgement on April 26 this year, the burnt memory/microcontroller in 5 per cent of the EVMs - the control unit, ballot unit and the VVPAT - per assembly constituency shall be checked and verified by a team of engineers from manufacturers of the EVMs, after the announcement of results, for any tampering or modification, he said.
A written request for this has to be made by candidates who are in the second or third position behind the highest polled candidate.
Such a request has to be made within seven days of declaration of the result, Khan said.
A candidate making the request will have to pay the expenses of Rs 41,000 which will be refunded in case the machine is found to be tampered with, he said.
The microcontroller is a one-time programmable chip embedded into the three units of EVM-Ballot Unit, Control Unit and the VVPAT - at the time of manufacturing, as per the SC.
A Sena (UBT) MLA from Mumbai has claimed there were discrepancies between the votes polled and the votes counted in the EVMs.
"Almost all candidates raised doubts over the EVMs," the legislator said.
