‘Was reduction in fuel price a Deepavali gift?’

KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar was in Hangal on November 5

Mocking the BJP statement terming tax cut on fuel as 'Deepavali gift', KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar said the BJP should ask voters whether it was really so.

Speaking to mediapersons in Hangal on November 5 after offering prayers to ‘Gramadevate’ (Goddess Durga), he said they (Congress leaders) had asked whether compensation had reached them and whether gas prices had reached ₹1,000. “To all these questions, the people have given answer in the Hangal bypoll. The prices of LPG, cement, steel have also gone up. They should also come down, isn't it?”