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- . 62 + ! 7 & 7 & 7 +-'.+/0123 2#2#3 /01"' 0"4 ! > 25# 4$00 $> 8*- 1$92 +#-#0 "$9#8:.! 8#*4 *+8+ - +#45 4."%-$ ?5$!*4 ?5.?*-#0*8 0!*-05 0.!#8 ".! 8*-"5 8*!.8 "5*-+1*85 4#*+#805! $9#8 05$2 +$- *84-#8 +#58*+.- 5@+#8*?*+ 9,*@*+* 4 " )*; ++, ;< =* 0 # *&& $ 03445 $ 02 )*+, & ! " -# +#45 14.12 per cent in December as against (-) 2.65 per cent in the etail inflation galloped to same month of 2018. It was R66-month high of 7.35 per 10.01 per cent in November cent posing a new challenge to 2019. The retail inflation based the Modi Government ahead of on Consumer Price Index the Union Budget. This is sec- (CPI) was 2.11 per cent in ond time that the inflation December 2018 and 5.54 per rate has reared its head so high cent in November 2019. In July since Narendra Modi took over 2014, the CPI was 7.39 per cent, as Prime Minister in July 2014. a tad higher than December The previous high in retail 2019’s number of 7.35 per cent. inflation was witnessed at 7.39 CPI was 2.11 per cent in per cent in July 2014. December 2018. The inflation The sharp rise in inflation rate was recorded 4.62 per means your money parked in cent in October, 2019. bank fix deposit will give you As per the data, urban food &" && negative return in majority of inflation increased to 16.12 per ' %' )" * + , the saving schemes. It will also cent compared to 12.3 per cent ' - narrow down the the previous month. Clothing Government’s option to bring and footwear inflation was at -# +#45 tal” crackdown by the police in Conference leader Hasnain in fiscal stimulus in the Budget 1.5 per cent in December com- Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, also Masoodi, besides Congress to revive the sinking economy. pared to 1.3 per cent in t an Opposition meeting said though the CAA and the leaders Rahul Gandhi, Ghulam With fiscal deficit veering November. Housing inflation Askipped by Bahujan Samaj NRC were the immediate cause Nabi Azad, Ahmed Patel and around 5.5 per cent — if the stood at 4.3 per cent compared Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party of the “nationwide sponta- former Prime Minister provisions for food subsidy to 4.5 per cent last month. Rural (SP), Trinamool Congress neous protests”, these “reflect Manmohan Singh were among and scheme and highway food inflation rose to 12.97 per (TMC), and allies DMK and widespread frustration and those present at the building projects (both have cent in December 2019 as Shiv Sena, Congress president pent up anger, which is now out meeting. been taken off the Budget and against 8.8 per cent in Sonia Gandhi on Monday in the open”. TMC supremo and West handed over to FCI and NHAI) November 2019. Not a single slammed the NDA NCP supremo Sharad Bengal Chief Minister Mamata are taken in to account — the item showed decrease in prices Government’s divisive policies Pawar, Left leaders Sitaram Banerjee kept away from the rising inflation poses a new money in the hands of the November. markets. Prices of pulses, milk in December. Prices of fuel and and described the national Yechury and D Raja, JMM meeting, angry over the challenge to the Government. common man, it will also Prices of vegetables shot up and other food products have light increased the least, by just population register (NPR) as leader and Jharkhand Chief Congress and Left cadres Economists feel that if the fis- nudge up inflation and add to 60.5 per cent, with a 53.37 per increased in the recent months. 0.7 per cent. the first step to a “nationwide Minister Hemant Soren, LJD unleashing violence in her cal deficit of the States is the fiscal deficit by impacting cent increase in urban areas Prices of pulses and prod- The Central Government National Register of Citizens chief Sharad Yadav, Rashtriya State during a recent bandh included, India is staring at a 8 revenue collection. and 75 per cent hike in rural ucts rose 15.44 per cent. In case has mandated the RBI to keep (NRC). Lok Samata Party leader call. The DMK’s absence, how- per cent fiscal deficit scenario. The rise in inflation can be areas. Most of the vegetables of “meat and fish” it was near- inflation in the range of 4 per Sonia, who criticised the Upendra Kushwaha, RJD ever, came as a surprise. The rise in inflation also attributed to sharp rise in were sold between 40 and 80 ly 10 per cent. The inflation in cent with a margin of 2 per cent “shockingly partisan and bru- leader Manoj Jha, National Sources said BSP’s reason to ties the RBI down to making prices of food and vegetable a kg since October last year. eggs was recorded 8.57 per cent on the either side. The RBI is keep away from the any monetary policy interven- prices, including onion, and Onion prices also touched while in case of spices it was scheduled to announce its next Opposition bandwagon was tion to stimulate the economy. tomato. According to the data 200 a kg in some parts of the nearly 6 per cent. Overall, the bi-monthly monetary policy on due to Congress’ poaching her Under this scenario, the released by the National country last month. inflation rate of the food and February 6. In its December # $ party’s legislators in Rajasthan Government can ill afford to Statistical Office (NSO) on Besides, prices of tomato, beverages category was 12.16 policy, the central bank, which even though BSP had extend- cut down personal income tax. Monday, vegetables inflation cabbage, carrot, green corian- per cent. had been reducing rates, had ed outside support to the While this will be a popular rose to 60.5 per cent in der leaves, lady finger, and As per the Government kept the repo rate unchanged %& $ AshokGehlot Government. measure which will put more December from 36 per cent in potato are still high in the retail data, the food inflation rose to citing inflationary concerns. !*2-* “There should be a debate on # CAA. If people want, then P n a clear rebuff to his ally the there will be a discussion in this IBJP and signalling his change House,” the Chief Minister told $% of heart over the contentious the House. Citizenship Amendment Act, In the past, Nitish had O $% & '( " % "# $ Bihar Chief Minister Nitish dropped one-liner to suggest Kumar on Monday said he is the NRC would not be imple- -# +#45 open to discuss the Act in the mented in Bihar, but this time -# +#45 State Assembly even as he he made his position official by JP working president JP -# +#45 emphasised that articulating it in BNadda is set to take charge he Supreme Court on here is no justifi- the State Assembly. as the party president on TMonday asked the he Uttar Pradesh cation for a coun- Nitish’s rejection of January 20, succeeding Amit Enforcement Directorate (ED) TGovernment on Monday try-wide NRC. the NRC and his ! "#$ % Shah. to attach Indian properties of JP said that senior IPS officer Speaking in willingness to & L Nadda was appointed BJP’s Morgan, which engaged in a Alok Singh will be the first the State debate the CAA in M working president in July last transaction with the now- police commissioner of Noida. Assembly, Kumar the Assembly is year, after Shah was picked as defunct Amrapali Group to The Government also named said the NRC was unlikely to please the Home Minister in the Modi siphon off homebuyers’ money Sujit Pandey as the first police an Assam-specific his ally. Government. in violation of the Foreign commissioner of Lucknow. regulation arising With his num- In the run-up to the 2019 Exchange Management Act While Alok Singh was out of the Assam ber two in the * + Lok Sabha elections, Nadda (FEMA) and FDI norms. Additional Director General of accord signed by party Prashant ! O " was made incharge of BJP’s The ED said it had prima Police, Meerut, Sujit Pandey the Rajiv Gandhi Kishor targeting , election campaign committee facie found violations of FEMA could be sent back to a prison by a peon and an office boy of was ADG in Prayagraj. following agitation the Modi - . / in Uttar Pradesh, where the norms by the US-based firm here. According to the share Amrapali’s statutory auditor Soon after the UP Cabinet against influx of Government ,-.0. party convincingly defeated and that a complaint in this subscription agreement between Anil Mittal. gave its approval for the com- foreign nationals in everyday on the & * 1 the formidable alliance of regard was lodged. JP Morgan and Amrapali A Bench of justices Arun missionerate system of policing the State. CAA and NRC, , the Samajwadi Party (SP) and The SC also allowed the Group, the US-based firm had Mishra and UU Lalit was told in two cities, an official “A c o u n t r y - Nitish’s change of O & the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ED to take into custody the invested 85 crore on October by ED Joint Director Rajeshwar spokesman said IGP attached wide implementa- stance is indicative by winning 62 of the 80 Lok defunct Amrapali Group’s 20, 2010, to have a preferential Singh, who is supervising the to DGP (HQ) Naveen Arora tion of NRC was ! "#$ of his intention not Sabha seats. CMD, Anil Kumar Sharma, claim on profits in the ratio of probe, that the MNC remitted and IG Provincial Armed needless and had to be seen as a ! " Apart from handling cru- and two other directors, Shiv 75 per cent to JP Morgan and 25 the money back to the Constabulary (HQ) Lucknow no justification,” he piggy rider of the #$ cial States for the BJP in Priya and Ajay Kumar, who are per cent to the promoters of US.

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