Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Wednesday said the Central government must refrain from implementing policies that lead to uncontrollable rise in fuel prices.
Vijayan was responding to a call attention motion moved by MLA C H Kunham in the Assembly to the need to urge the Central government to reduce tax or effect price control over petroleum products.
“The overall price rise caused by the Union government’s frequent hiking of fuel price weakens consumption and thereby stands in the way of economic growth.This rise in price of essential commodities hurts a consumer-State like Kerala. The Centre must refrain from implementing policies that lead to uncontrollable rise in fuel prices,” Vijayan said.
The Chief Minister said the fuel price was rising uncontrollably after the shift from administrative price mechanism to dynamic pricing.
He said the people were not getting any benefit of the change in international oil prices.
“When the…