Inflated Bandhs

I was reading an article by Deepak Shenoy and after reading that article I could not resist myself from penning down by view points…….......

Last Monday was "bandh", railing against the fuel price hike and 'mehengai' (rising prices).

We all know that the three basic necessities of "aam aadmi" - the common man are Food, Cloth and Shelter. The frustration seems to be over what we are seeing in the agricultural markets - prices of agri-products have risen tremendously over the last two years and that seems to be affecting the sentiment of the common man. Increase in rent or property prices every year and even for increase in clothing prices should have elicited calls for “bandhs” every year. But food seems a higher inflation fear which I failed to understand that why the common man does not reacts on increase in prices for the other two basic necessities.

I am not in support for calling “bandhs” but we should at least show our concerns for increase in rent or property and clothing prices.

Now let's take fuel prices. They were recently raised because international fuel prices have been going up....but a major percentage of fuel prices are taxes. If the government wanted to keep fuel prices at the same level, they could have reduced the tax and the subsidy at the same time.
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