Slamming the UPA Government for its “insensitive economic policy”, the BJP on Friday demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. “The economic policy of the UPA Government is insensitive and against the interests of the aam aadmi. Mismanagement of the economy has led to price rise and inflation,” party president Rajnath Singh said at a public meeting in Indore on Friday.

In New Delhi, party spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad demanded the PM’s resignation, stating that the “inflation figure has touched a new high of 8.24 per cent”. “You the economist Prime Minister cannot manage the economy, cannot manage India. So, please quit,” Prasad said. “During Manmohan Singh’s tenure as finance minister in the P V Narasimha Rao government, inflation was at its peak. The situation is similar now,” he said, adding, “on March 31, Finance Minister P Chidambaram had promised that measures taken by the Government would show results in two weeks. It has been eight weeks and sufferings of the common man have only increased”.

“It’s all because of UPA’s mismanagement of food economy,” he said, adding that even Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s claims of a bumper crop has failed to improve the situation.

Speaking in Jaipur, another party spokesperson Prakash Javdekar said that CMs of BJP-ruled states would soon reduce sales tax on petroleum products.