the real name of the party is Bogus & Jobless Party or shall we say Burglars & Junkies Party! they were the ones who were trying to sell Family Silver to buy chocolates! they told the whole country that look, if they didnt sell off the oil co.s then the economy would collapse! where would the money for development come from? we would lag behind china in gdp bla bla bla! if arun shourie Inc. would have succeeded in selling off the oil giants BPCL & HPCL to guys like ambanis and petronas then the price would have been as follows (because i work for oil industry i know better, eh!) Petrol - 115 per liter, Diesel - 110 per liter, LPG - 950/- per cylinder. Kerosene - out of stok (because private sector would not waste their money refining a poor man's fuel. Advani sun of a beach!
