Economics
Indian Opposition Protest Prices as Singh Mulls Steps
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India’s main opposition party plans nationwide protests as rising prices of food including onions and milk roils Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s coalition, already weakened by corruption charges.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, will hold demonstrations and stage sit-ins in India’s major towns for a month starting Jan. 20, party spokesman Ravi Shankar Prasad said in New Delhi yesterday. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of India’s Planning Commission, said Singh yesterday discussed steps to curb prices with cabinet colleagues. He didn’t elaborate. More deliberations may be held today, the Press Trust of India reported, without saying where it got the information.