From Our Special Correspondent
Daijiworld Media Network

Bengaluru, Apr 3: Even as the ruling Congress party leaders as well as leaders of other parties are busy in the election campaign, Karnataka’s Agriculture Minister Krishna Byre Gowda on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government at the Centre of betraying the middle classes and the common people.

The Minister, who visited the KPCC office in Bengaluru on Tuesday, said the Modi government has miserably failed to bring petrol and diesel prices under control.

He alleged that the Modi government has been “betraying” the trust of the common people.

Gowda alleged that the Modi government “miserably failed’’ to curtail rise in fuel prices.

The NDA Government has hiked fuel prices nine times during the last four years despite fall in global fuel prices by $ 62 per barrel. 

He dubbed the BJP government as “anti-people as these sections have to bear the burden of spiralling prices of fuel. 

Gowda also alleged that the BJP government believed in “cruel taxation” and no concern to problems faced the people.

Increase of excise duty by the Centre was one of the major reasons for hike in fuel prices. 

The Modi government was unresponsive to the pain of the common people suffering the brunt of high oil prices.

The Modi government has betrayed the trust that the common people had bestowed on it. It has failed to contain the rise in fuel prices. Fuel prices were more in Karnataka compared to neighbouring states, Gowda said.