NCP targets govt, plans farmers’ rally

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Wednesday opposed the government’s plan to deregulate diesel prices and also decided to hold a farmers’ rally at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on May 16 to highlight farmers’ issues like ban on the export of farm commodities, an issue on which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already convened a meeting of key ministers on April 30. The latest move by the Congress ally further strengthens the perception that there are growing cracks in the ruling alliance at the Centre.

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