{"id":24099,"date":"2026-06-20T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/bjp-busy-buying-parties-when-people-cant-afford-necessities-mallikarjun-kharge-targets-centre-over-inflation-india-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:57:02","slug":"bjp-busy-buying-parties-when-people-cant-afford-necessities-mallikarjun-kharge-targets-centre-over-inflation-india-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/bjp-busy-buying-parties-when-people-cant-afford-necessities-mallikarjun-kharge-targets-centre-over-inflation-india-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;BJP busy buying parties when people can&#8217;t afford necessities&#8217;: Mallikarjun Kharge targets Centre over inflation | India News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131871161,imgsize-85659,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/-.jpg\" alt=\"'BJP busy buying parties when people can't afford necessities': Mallikarjun Kharge targets Centre over inflation\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/mallikarjun-kharge\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Mallikarjun Kharge<\/a> targeted the Centre over rising inflation saying that while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was &#8220;busy buying shopping from other parties&#8221;, common people could not even &#8220;afford basic necessities!&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"3\"\/>Kharge&#8217;s remarks come at a time when several MPs and MLAs from key opposition parties either merged with the ruling party or expressed their support for it. 6 of 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/shiv-sena\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Shiv Sena<\/a> (UBT) MPs in Lok Sabha have reportedly sided with the Eknath Shinde faction. <!-- -->20 TMC Lok Sabha MPs decided to merge with the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI) and extend their support to NDA. 7 AAP Rajya Sabha MPs merged with the BJP earlier this year.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>&#8220;Rapidly depleting savings due to high inflation, Unaffordability, betrayal of aspirations, inequality, fall in global credibility, youth anger galore! Households perish under the weight of Modi Govt&#8217;s mismanagement of the economy!&#8221; Kharge said in a post on X.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>&#8220;BJP busy shopping from other parties, but the AAM AADMI can&#8217;t afford basic necessities!&#8221; he added.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>&#8220;Retail inflation at a 16-month high; food inflation at 4.78%, tomatoes disappearing from plates; medical inflation above 15%; rupee continues to weaken; foreign investors are pulling back; youth face a jobs crisis as unemployment rises,&#8221; he noted.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra cautioned that the monetary policy committee (MPC) will need to remain vigilant about the inflation trajectory, particularly in light of the fuel price revisions in May.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/> &#8220;We need to be watchful of the inflation trajectory. Going forward, revision in retail prices of petrol and diesel in May would lead to higher fuel inflation in the coming months,&#8221; ANI quoted the governor saying.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>Centre hiked petrol prices thrice in a month amid continued stress due to Hormuz blockade causing oil supply disruptions due to US-Iran war.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/bjp-busy-buying-parties-when-people-cant-afford-necessities-mallikarjun-kharge-targets-centre-over-inflation\/articleshow\/131870698.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge targeted the Centre over rising inflation saying that while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was &#8220;busy buying shopping from other parties&#8221;, common people could not even &#8220;afford basic necessities!&#8221;Kharge&#8217;s remarks come at a time when several MPs and MLAs from key opposition parties either merged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-country"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}