The latest price hike of petrol has naturally enraged the people. The continued increases of the petroleum products by the oil companies have made the families to tighten their belts. It has become difficult to make both ends meets for the poor and the lower middle class. Along with the petrol price increase, the cost of every commodity has increased, that too without any limit. The Indian business community has understood that the people will suffer any thing and will not react. This is partly true. The Indians have been continuously through centuries been taught to accept sufferings as a virtue. Suffering and sacrifice are the road to salvation and a ticket to heaven. This philosophy has been a tool in the hands of the rich and powerful to keep the poor under control. The neo-liberalists and the politicians in power well understand this philosophy and use its to continue their loot of the poor. It is on this basis that the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has fully justified the hike and given a clear indication that the petrol prices may be hiked again.
The common people has to react against these inhuman attacks on the them by the rich and powerful. Otherwise more drastic attacks are going to come.