Chandigarh, Dec 18 (IANS) The Shiromani Akali Dal Friday sought the resignation of the union government for its failure to control price rise.
“This government has no right to continue in power,” Akali Dal president and Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said pointing out that the central government had failed to curb rising prices of all essential commodities.

Slamming the government for its insensitive attitude towards the misery of the common man getting crushed with the spiralling prices of all essential commodities, Badal said inflation touching an unprecedented figure of 20 percent, highest in last 12 years, shows the total failure of economic policies.

“This government has no right to continue in power. The union agriculture, finance and commerce ministries failed to have coordinated approach to tackle the problem of rising prices and their mutual failure of coordination was costing the nation dearly,” Badal said in a statement here.

Calling upon the people to expose the corrupt policies of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, Badal said deliberate timing of imposing and relaxing curbs on import and export, with the design to manoeuvre the prices of essential commodities was responsible for calculated price rise by various lobbies.

He regretted that at a time when pulses were selling at Rs.90 per kg, the prime minister was attending the climate summit in Copenhagen and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar was busy with cricket matches.