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Price rise a challenge for UPA government: Sonia
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The Hindustan Times
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June 13, 2008
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Guwahati, June 13 -- Spiralling prices are a challenge for the central government but it is trying its best to avoid burdening the masses, United Progress Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi said here Friday.
"Inflation and growing price rise are a matter of concern for the government. We had to increase prices of petrol and diesel due to surging global oil prices although we are trying to keep the prices low by asking our Congress-ruled states to give subsidies," Gandhi told a massive farmers' rally in Guwahati.
Gandhi, who landed here in the morning for the first leg of her two-day northeast visit, focussed on ...